Lexicon balaq: to waste, lay waste Original Word: בָּלַקPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: balaq Phonetic Spelling: (baw-lak') Short Definition: devastates NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. root Definitionto waste, lay waste NASB Translationdevastates (1), waste (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs [ בָּלַק] verb waste, lay waste (Assyrian balâ‡u, Pi`el destroy, Lyon Sargon 61; compare Arabic  a desert) — Po`el Participle without מ, suffix בּוֺלְקָהּ Isaiah 24:1 ("" בּוֺקֵק, subject ׳י, object הארץ); — on form (which might also be Qal Participle) compare Ol§ 254 LagGN 1882, 403; also בקק Po. Jeremiah 51:2, and intensive use of Infinitive absolute Niph`al Isaiah 24:3; further Punic (i.e. intensive) Participle Nahum 2:11 (this however perhaps largely influenced by assonance). Pu`al Participle מְבֻלָּקָ֑ה Nahum 2:11 (׳בּוּקָה וּמְבוּקָה ומב), devastated, or as substantive a devastated city.
Strong's make waste A primitive root; to annihilate -- (make) waste. |
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