בָּלַל balal
Hebrew word for “to mix” · Strong’s H1101 · used 43 times in 41 verses
Meaning
1) to mix, mingle, confuse, confound;
Senses in the lexicon
- to mix (42)
- to feed (1)
How it is translated
Glosses given for balal in context, with how often each is used:
- mixed 38
- us confuse 1
- confused 1
- have been anointed 1
- mixes himself 1
- fed 1
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Numbers 7 (12), Numbers 28 (6), Numbers 15 (3), Numbers 29 (3), Genesis 11 (2), Exodus 29 (2), Leviticus 2 (2), Leviticus 7 (2), Leviticus 14 (2), Leviticus 9 (1)
Forms
- בלולה 29
- בלולת 5
- בלול 4
- ונבלה 1
- בלל 1
- בלתי 1
- יתבולל 1
- ויבל 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with balal more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- סֹלֶת solet “fine flour” 34
- שֶׁמֶן shemen “oil” 37
- מִנְחָה minchah “offering” 33
- עִשָּׂרוֹן issaron “tenth” 15
- קְעָרָה qearah “dish” 12
- קׇרְבָּן qorban “offering” 15
- מִזְרָק mizraq “bowl” 12
- שְׁנַיִם shenayim “two” 22
- מִשְׁקָל mishqal “weight” 12
- שֶׁקֶל sheqel “shekel” 12
- מָלֵא male “full” 12
- אֶחָד echad “one” 20
Key verses
The verses using balal that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Genesis 11:7 — Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
- Genesis 11:9 — Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad…
- Exodus 29:2 — And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.
- Exodus 29:40 — And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering.
- Leviticus 2:4 — And if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed…
- Leviticus 7:12 — If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed…
- Leviticus 14:10 — And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour for a…
- Leviticus 14:21 — And if he be poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take one lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make an atonement for him, and one tenth deal of…
- Leviticus 23:13 — And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink…
- Numbers 7:13 — And his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the…
- Numbers 15:4 — Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the LORD bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of oil.
- Psalms 92:10 — But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
See all 41 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.