Balsam
בָּכָאStrong’s H1057bakah (ba-kah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bakah is the Hebrew word usually translated “balsam trees”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when David enquired of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.”
Meaning
- Balsam tree-a shrub which drips sap when it is cut
- Possible name of a vale of balsam trees in Ps 84:6
How it's translated
- the balsam trees 3
- balsam trees 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 2
- 1 Chronicles 2
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 5:24And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the LORD go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.
- 1 Chronicles 14:14Therefore David enquired again of God; and God said unto him, Go not up after them; turn away from them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.
- 1 Chronicles 14:15And it shall be, when thou shalt hear a sound of going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt go out to battle: for God is gone forth before thee to smite the host of the Philistines.
Hebrew dictionary
בָּכָא bakah · balsam
1) balsam tree-a shrub which drips sap when it is cut 2) possible name of a vale of balsam trees in Ps 84:6
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “balsam” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BAL'SAM, noun
[Latin balsamum.]
An oily, aromatic, resinous substance, flowing spontaneously or by incision, from certain plants. A (p.22)
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.