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Bible Lexicons

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Strong's #2991 - יִבְלְעָם

Transliteration

Yiblᵉʻâm

Phonetics

yib-leh-awm'

Origin

from (H1104) and (H5971)

Parts of Speech

proper locative noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

Ibleam = "devouring the people"
1. a city of Manasseh apparently located in the territory of either Issachar or Asher

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (3)

Joshua 1

Judges 1

2 Kings 1

BSB (3)

Joshua 1

Judges 1

2 Kings 1

CSB (3)

Joshua 1

Judges 1

2 Kings 1

ESV (4)

Joshua 1

Judges 1

2 Kings 2

KJV (3)

Joshua 1

Judges 1

2 Kings 1

LEB (3)

Joshua 1

Judges 1

2 Kings 1

LSB (3)

Joshua 1

Judges 1

2 Kings 1

N95 (3)

Joshua 1

Judges 1

2 Kings 1

NAS (3)

Joshua 1

Judges 1

2 Kings 1

NLT (0)

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (3)

Joshua 1

Judges 1

2 Kings 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

יִבְלְעָם proper name, of a location a city of Manasseh in West-Jordan land Joshua 17:11 (J E; but ׳יִב here dubious, see Bu^{RS 13f.}), Judges 1:27; 2 Kings 9:27; so read also 2 Kings 15:10 for ᵑ0קָבָלעָֿם (ᵐ5^L ἐν Ιεβλααμ; see Klo); = בִּלְעָם 1 Chronicles 6:55, q. v.; read יִבְלְעָם also in Joshua 21:25 ("" 1 Chronicles 6:55), for ᵑ0גַּתּ רִמּוֺן, ᵐ5 Ιεβαθα (ᵐ5^L after ᵑ0 Γεθρεμμων, see Di; it lay about 13miles east of north from Samaria, three-fifths of the way to Jezreel; modern ruin Bel`ame Bd^{Pal 228}, compare Schultz^{ZMG iii. 49}; (Old Egyptian Y-b-ra-±a-mu WMM¹⁹⁵).

יַבֶּלֶת see יַבָּל

יבם (apparently √ of following; meaning dubious).

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

יִבְלְעָם (from יִבְלֶה and עָם, “devouring the people”), [Ibleam], pr.n. of a town in the tribe of Manasseh, Joshua 17:11; Judges 1:27; 2 Kings 9:27 written 1 Chronicles 6:55, בִּלְעָם.

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List of Word Forms

וְיִבְלְעָ֨ם ויבלעם יִבְלְעָ֔ם יִבְלְעָם֙ יבלעם veyivleAm wə·yiḇ·lə·‘ām wəyiḇlə‘ām yiḇ·lə·‘ām yiḇlə‘ām yivleAm