Strong’s H1104

בָּלַע

bala · 48 Old Testament occurrences

King James renderings: cover, destroy, devour, eat up, be at end, spend up, swallow down (up).

Every Old Testament occurrence

• Genesis 41:7And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.
• Genesis 41:24And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told this unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.
• Exodus 7:12For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.
• Exodus 15:12Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
• Numbers 4:20But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.
• Numbers 16:30But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down qu…
• Numbers 16:32And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.
• Numbers 16:34And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.
• Numbers 26:10And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred…
• Deuteronomy 11:6And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and th…
• 2 Samuel 17:16Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the…
• 2 Samuel 20:19I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up…
• 2 Samuel 20:20And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.
• Job 2:3And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man,…
• Job 7:19How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
• Job 8:18If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee.
• Job 10:8Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
• Job 20:15He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
• Job 20:18That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he sha…
• Job 37:20Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.
• Psalms 21:9Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour the…
• Psalms 35:25Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
• Psalms 55:9Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
• Psalms 69:15Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
• Psalms 106:17The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.
• Psalms 107:27They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit’s end.
• Psalms 124:3Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
• Proverbs 1:12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
• Proverbs 19:28An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.
• Proverbs 21:20There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.
• Ecclesiastes 10:12The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
• Isaiah 3:12As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy…
• Isaiah 9:16For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
• Isaiah 19:3And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to t…
• Isaiah 25:7And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
• Isaiah 25:8He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take a…
• Isaiah 28:4And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which…
• Isaiah 28:7But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong dr…
• Isaiah 49:19For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they…
• Jeremiah 51:34Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dr…
• Lamentations 2:2The LORD hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daug…
• Lamentations 2:5The LORD was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath i…
• Lamentations 2:8The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destr…
• Lamentations 2:16All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this i…
• Hosea 8:7For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the stran…
• Hosea 8:8Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
• Jonah 1:17Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
• Habakkuk 1:13Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and h…