בַּ֫עַל מְעוֹן
Baal-meon
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Baal-meon’ 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 H1186 appears — 3 distinct verses across 3 books. 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.
Numbers 1 verse
1 Chronicles 1 verse
Ezekiel 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
בעל מעון (Baʻal Mᵉʻôwn) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Baal-meon.” It is rare — just 3 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. It concentrates in Numbers, which alone accounts for 33% of its uses. Debuting at Numbers 32:38, it then recurs through the corpus. For the data behind this summary, explore 3-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1186 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,040
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,040 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Numbers 1 verse 33%
- 1 Chronicles 1 verse 33%
- Ezekiel 1 verse 33%
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 3 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 33%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 33%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 33%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Baalmeon 3×
- American Standard Version: Baal-meon 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Baal-meon 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Baal 2×, Baal meon 2×, Meon 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1186 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1186 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1186 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1186 across 6 tagged occurrences — 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.
- Baal-meon = "lord of the habitation"
- a town in Reuben, mentioned in connection with Nebo, and in the time of Ezekiel, Moabite
Word origin
n.pr.loc. Nu 32:38 1 Ch 5:8 Ez 25:9 = בית בעל מעון Jos 13:17 (cf. MI30) = Maʿîn TristrMoab 316 BdPal. 192 SurveyEP 176.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from בעל (Baʻal) (H1168) — Baal.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms H1186 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בַּ֥עַל | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 25:9 | 1 |
| בַּ֧עַל | Noun, Proper | Numbers 32:38 | 1 |
| וּ/בַ֥עַל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 5:8 | 1 |
| מְע֖וֹן | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 25:9 | 1 |
| מְע֛וֹן | Noun, Proper | Numbers 32:38 | 1 |
| מְעֽוֹן | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 5:8 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1186, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- Βααλ Báal G896 Baal
- בל Bêl H1078 Bel
- בעל ברית Baʻal Bᵉrîyth H1170 Baal-berith
- בעל גד Baʻal Gâd H1171 Baal-gad
- בעל זבוב Baʻal Zᵉbûwb H1176 Baal-zebub
- בעלידע Bᵉʻelyâdâʻ H1182 Beeliada
- בעל פעור Baʻal Pᵉʻôwr H1187 Baal-peor
- בעל צפון Baʻal Tsᵉphôwn H1189 Baal-zephon
- בעל שלשה Baʻal Shâlishâh H1190 Baal-shalisha
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 12 — not the complete family. 10 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Baal-meon). 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
Lord of dwelling, a town of Reuben (Num. 32:38), called also Beth-meon (Jer. 48:23) and Beth-baal-meon (Josh. 13:17). It is supposed to have been the birth-place of Elisha. It is identified with the modern M'ain, about 3 miles south-east of Heshbon.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
idol or master of the house
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
