To mix
בָּלַלStrong’s H1101balal (ba-lal)
Appears in 41 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Balal is the Hebrew word usually translated “mixed”, “let us confuse” and “confused”. It appears in 41 verses of the Old Testament.
“Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
Meaning
- To mix, mingle, confuse, confound(Qal) · (Hithpoel) to mix oneself (among others) · (Hiphil) to fade away
- To give provender, feed (animals)
How it's translated
- mixed 38
- and let us confuse 1
- he confused 1
- and he fed 1
- i have been anointed 1
- he mixes himself 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 26
- Leviticus 8
- Genesis 2
- Exodus 2
- Judges 1
- Psalms 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 11:9Therefore 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 upon the face of all the earth.
- Exodus 29:2And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.
- Exodus 29:40And 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 2:4And 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 with oil.
- Leviticus 2:5And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in a pan, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.
- Leviticus 7:10And every meat offering, mingled with oil, and dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one as much as another.
Hebrew dictionary
בָּלַל balal · to mix
1) to mix, mingle, confuse, confound 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to mingle, confuse 1a2) to mix 1b) (Hithpoel) to mix oneself (among others) 1c) (Hiphil) to fade away
בָּלַל balal · to feed
to give provender, feed (animals)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “mix” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MIX, verb transitive
preterit tense and participle passive mixed or mixt. [Latin misceo, mixtum; Heb. to mix ]
- To unite or blend promiscuously two or more ingredients into a mass or compound; applied both to solids and liquids; as, to mix flour and salt; to mix wines.
- To join; to associate; to unite with in company.
- To join; to mingle.
- To unite with a crowd or multitude.
All definitions and other forms of “mix”
MIX, verb intransitive
To become united or blended promiscuously in a mass or compound. Oil and water will not mix without the intervention of a third substance.
- To be joined or associated; as, to mix with the multitude, or to mix in society.
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.