# בָּלַג (balag)

Israeli respelling: ba-lag. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H1082. 4 Old Testament occurrences.

to break off or loose (in a favorable or unfavorable sense), i.e. desist (from grief) or invade (with destruction)

King James renderings: comfort, (recover) strength(-en).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/balag-h1082

## Occurrences

- [Job 9:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/9/27) — If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
- [Job 10:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/10/20) — Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
- [Psalms 39:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/39/13) — O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
- [Amos 5:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/5/9) — That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.