Bela
בֶּ֫לַעStrong’s H6820bela (be-la)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bela is the Hebrew word usually translated “zoar”, “from zoar” and “zoar towards”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.”
Meaning
- Bela = "destruction"
How it's translated
- zoar 6
- from zoar 2
- zoar towards 1
- in zoar 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 6
- Deuteronomy 1
- Isaiah 1
- Jeremiah 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 14:2That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.
- Genesis 14:8And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;
- Genesis 19:22Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
- Genesis 19:23The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
- Genesis 19:30And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
- Deuteronomy 34:3And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.
Hebrew dictionary
בֶּ֫לַע bela · Bela
Bela = "destruction" one of the five cities of the plain which was spared at the intercession of Lot, and received the name of Zoar Another name of tso.ar (צֹ֫עַר "Zoar" H6820)
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.