Mistress
בַּעֲלָהStrong’s H1172baalah (ba-a-lah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Baalah is the Hebrew word usually translated “owner of” and “mistress of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and enquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor.”
Meaning
- Mistress, female owner
- Sorceress, necromancer (noun of relationship)
How it's translated
- owner of 1
- an owner of 1
- mistress of 1
- a mistress of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 1
- 1 Kings 1
- Nahum 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 17:17And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.
- Nahum 3:4Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
Hebrew dictionary
בַּעֲלָה baalah · mistress
1) mistress, female owner 2) sorceress, necromancer (noun of relationship)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “mistress” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MIS'TRESS, noun
[Latin magistra.]
- A woman who governs; correlative to servant, slave, or subject.
- The female head of a family.
- That which governs; a sovereign.
- One that commands, or has possession and sovereignty.
All definitions and other forms of “mistress”
- A female who is well skilled in any thing; as, she is mistress of arithmetic.
- A woman teacher; an instructress of a school.
- A woman beloved and courted.
- A woman in keeping for lewd purposes.
- A term of contemptuous address.
MIS'TRESS, verb transitive
To wait upon a mistress; to be courting.
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.