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Strong's #1109 - בִּלְעָם
Proper Name, Location
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
Balaam = “not of the people”
1) the son of Beor, a man endowed with the gift of prophecy (noun proper masculine)
2) a town in Manasseh (noun proper locative)
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II. בִּלְעָם proper name, of a location town in Manasseh 1 Chronicles 6:55; A Ιβλααμ, ᵐ5 L Ιεβλααμ = יִבְלְעָם (q. v.) Joshua 17:11 2t.; modern Bel`ame, 6 hours north of Nâblus, Bd Pal 228, so Survey ii. 47.
בִּלְעָם (comp. of בַּל and עָם, non-populus, perhaps i.q. “a foreigner”), [Balaam], pr.n.
(1) of Balaam the false prophet, -Num. 2224 ; Deuteronomy 23:5, Deuteronomy 23:6; Joshua 13:22, 24:9 Micah 6:5. LXX. Βαλαάμ.
(2) [Bileam], of a town of the tribe of Manasseh, situated beyond Jordan, 1 Chronicles 6:55 called elsewhere יִבְלְעָם (יִבְלֶה עָם), [Ibleam], Joshua 17:11; Judges 1:27; 2 Kings 9:27.