Baalah
בַּעֲלָהStrong’s H7157baalah (ba-a-lah)
Appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Baalah is the Hebrew word usually translated “jearim”, “kiriath” and “from kiriath”. It appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjathjearim.”
Meaning
- Baalah = "mistress"
How it's translated
- jearim 18
- kiriath 14
- from kiriath 3
- at kiriath 2
- and kiriath 1
- arim 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 6
- 1 Chronicles 5
- 1 Samuel 3
- Judges 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Ezra 1
8 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 15:9And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah, which is Kirjathjearim:
- Joshua 15:60Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, and Rabbah; two cities with their villages:
- Joshua 18:14And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Bethhoron southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.
- Joshua 18:15And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjathjearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah:
- Joshua 18:28And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.
- Judges 18:12And they went up, and pitched in Kirjathjearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahanehdan unto this day: behold, it is behind Kirjathjearim.
Hebrew dictionary
בַּעֲלָה baalah · Baalah
Baalah = "mistress" or Kirjath-baal; modern Kuriet el Enab Another name of qir.yat ye.a.rim (קִרְיַת יְעָרִים "Kiriath-jearim" H7157)
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.