Bileam
בִּלְעָםStrong’s H2991bilam (bil-am)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bilam is the Hebrew word usually translated “ibleam”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Bethshean and her towns, and Ibleam and her towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and her towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns, even three countries.”
Meaning
- Balaam = "not of the people"
How it's translated
- ibleam 2
- and ibleam 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 1
- Judges 1
- 2 Kings 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 1:27Neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of Bethshean and her towns, nor Taanach and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns: but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
- 2 Kings 9:27But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot. And they did so at the going up to Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.
Hebrew dictionary
בִּלְעָם bilam · Bileam
Balaam = "not of the people" a town in Manasseh Another name of yiv.le.am (יִבְלְעָם "Ibleam" H2991)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.