Strong's Concordance balaq: to waste, lay waste Original Word: בָּלַקPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: balaq Phonetic Spelling: (baw-lak') Short Definition: devastates Brown-Driver-Briggs [בָּלַק] verb waste, lay waste (Assyrian balâ‡u, Pi`el destroy, LyonSargon 61; compare Arabic a desert) — Po`el Participle without מ, suffix בּוֺלְקָהּ Isaiah 24:1 ("" בּוֺקֵק, subject ׳י, object הארץ); — on form (which might also be Qal Participle) compare Ol§ 254 LagGN 1882, 403; also בקק Po. Jeremiah 51:2, and intensive use of Infinitive absolute Niph`al Isaiah 24:3; further Punic (i.e. intensive) Participle Nahum 2:11 (this however perhaps largely influenced by assonance). Pu`al Participle מְבֻלָּקָ֑ה Nahum 2:11 (׳בּוּקָה וּמְבוּקָה ומב), devastated, or as substantive a devastated city. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance make waste A primitive root; to annihilate -- (make) waste. Forms and Transliterations וּבֽוֹלְקָ֑הּ וּמְבֻלָּקָ֑ה ובולקה ומבלקה ū·ḇō·wl·qāh ū·mə·ḇul·lā·qāh ūḇōwlqāh ūməḇullāqāh umevullaKah uVolKahLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Hebrew 11102 Occurrences ū·mə·ḇul·lā·qāh — 1 Occ. ū·ḇō·wl·qāh — 1 Occ. Isaiah 24:1 HEB: בּוֹקֵ֥ק הָאָ֖רֶץ וּבֽוֹלְקָ֑הּ וְעִוָּ֣ה פָנֶ֔יהָ NAS: waste, devastates it, distorts KJV: empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth INT: lays the earth devastates distorts surface Nahum 2:10 |