Swallowing
בֶ֫לַעStrong’s H1105bela (be-la)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bela is the Hebrew word usually translated “swallowing” and “swallowed thing his”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.”
Meaning
- A swallowing, devouring (fig. for ruin)
- A thing swallowed
How it's translated
- swallowing 1
- swallowed thing his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
- Jeremiah 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
בֶ֫לַע bela · swallowing
1) a swallowing, devouring (fig. for ruin) 2) a thing swallowed
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “swallowing” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SWAL'LOWING, participle present
tense Taking into the stomach; absorbing; ingulfing; receiving implicitly; engrossing; wasting; exhausting.
All definitions and other forms of “swallowing”
SWAL'LOWING, noun
The act of taking into the stomach or of absorbing; the act of receiving implicitly; the act of engrossing.
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.