בַּעֲלִיס
Baalis
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Baalis’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H1185 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Jeremiah 1 verse
About this entry
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בעליס — transliterated Baʻălîyç — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Baalis.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Hebrew Bible. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Jeremiah. It occurs only once, in Jeremiah 40:14. See 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1185 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Jeremiah 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Baalis 1×
- American Standard Version: Baalis 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Baalis 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1185 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1185 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1185 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Baalis = "lord of the banner: in causing the joy"
- king of the Ammonites at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar
Word origin
n.pr.m. (GrMonatsschrift, 1885, 471 reads בַּעְלִיס; = בֶּן־עֲלִיס son of delight? cf. sub בְּ) king of Ammonites Je 40:14 (Codd. & JosAnt.. x, 9, 2 read בעלים).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עלס (ʻâlaç) (H5965) — to rejoice.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Baalis). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
King of the Ammonites at the time of the Babylonian captivity (Jer. 40:14). He hired Ishmael to slay Gedaliah who had been appointed governor over the cities of Judah.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
king of the Ammonites at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar. (Jeremiah 40:14) (B.C. 588.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
a rejoicing; a proud lord
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
