בָּלָה balah
Hebrew word for “to become old” · Strong’s H1086 · used 15 times in 14 verses
Meaning
1) to wear out, become old;
How it is translated
Glosses given for balah in context, with how often each is used:
- wore out 4
- will wear out 3
- worn out i 1
- have worn out 1
- consume 1
- wears out 1
- became worn out 1
- consuming 1
- will use to the full 1
- has made to waste away 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deuteronomy | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Psalms | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Isaiah | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Genesis | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Joshua | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 1 Chronicles | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Nehemiah | 1 | 0.2 | |
| Job | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Lamentations | 1 | 0.6 |
Chapters where it is used most
Genesis 18 (1), Deuteronomy 8 (1), Deuteronomy 29 (1), Joshua 9 (1), 1 Chronicles 17 (1), Nehemiah 9 (1), Job 13 (1), Psalms 32 (1), Psalms 49 (1), Psalms 102 (1)
Forms
- בלו 4
- יבלו 3
- בלתה 2
- בלתי 1
- לבלתו 1
- יבלה 1
- לבלות 1
- תבלה 1
- בלה 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with balah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- שַׂלְמָה salmah “garment” 3
- בֶּגֶד beged “garment” 4
- בָּצֵק batseq “to swell” 2
- אַרְבָּעִים arbaim “forty” 3
- עָשׁ ash “moth” 2
- נַעַל naal “sandal” 2
- רֶגֶל regel “foot” 3
- נָטַע nata “to plant” 2
- עֶצֶם etsem “bone” 2
- שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 3
- אָכַל akhal “to eat” 3
- מִדְבָּר midbar “wilderness” 2
Key verses
The verses using balah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Genesis 18:12 — Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
- Deuteronomy 29:5 — And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
- 1 Chronicles 17:9 — Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the…
- Nehemiah 9:21 — Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
- Job 13:28 — And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
- Psalms 32:3 — When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
- Psalms 49:14 — Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume…
- Psalms 102:26 — They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
- Isaiah 50:9 — Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
- Isaiah 51:6 — Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment,…
- Isaiah 65:22 — They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall…
- Lamentations 3:4 — My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
See all 14 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.