Lexicon :: Strong's H1104 - bālaʿ

The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven plump, full ones. Then Pharaoh woke up, and it was only a dream.

“The thin heads of grain swallowed the seven good ones. I told this to the magicians, but no one can tell me what it means.”

Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron’s staff swallowed their staffs.

You stretched out your right hand,

and the earth swallowed them.

“The Kohathites are not to go in and look at the holy objects as they are covered[fn] or they will die.”

“But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them along with all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have despised the LORD.”

The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, all Korah’s people, and all their possessions.

At their cries, all the people of Israel who were around them fled because they thought, “The earth may swallow us too! ”

The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them with Korah, when his followers died and the fire consumed 250 men. They serve as a warning sign.

“and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when in the middle of the whole Israelite camp the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and every living thing with them.

“Now send someone quickly and tell David, ‘Don’t spend the night at the wilderness ford,[fn] but be sure to cross over the Jordan,[fn] or the king and all the people with him will be devoured.’ ”

“I am one of the peaceful and faithful in Israel, but you’re trying to destroy a city that is like a mother in Israel. Why would you devour the LORD’s inheritance? ”

Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited me against him, to destroy him for no good reason.”

Will you ever look away from me,

or leave me alone long enough to swallow?[fn]

If he is uprooted[fn] from his place,

it will deny knowing him, saying, “I never saw you.”

“Your hands shaped me and formed me.

Will you now turn and destroy me?

He swallows wealth but must vomit it up;

God will force it from his stomach.

He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it;

he doesn’t enjoy the profits from his trading.

Should he be told that I want to speak?

Can a man speak when he is confused?

You will make them burn

like a fiery furnace when you appear;

the LORD will engulf them in his wrath,

and fire will devour them.

Do not let them say in their hearts,

“Aha! Just what we wanted.”

Do not let them say,

“We have swallowed him up! ”

Lord, confuse[fn] and confound their speech,[fn]

for I see violence and strife in the city;

Don’t let the floodwaters sweep over me

or the deep swallow me up;

don’t let the Pit close its mouth over me.

The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan;

it covered the assembly of Abiram.

they reeled and staggered like a drunkard,

and all their skill was useless.

then they would have swallowed us alive

in their burning anger against us.

“Let’s swallow them alive, like Sheol,

whole, like those who go down to the Pit.

A worthless witness mocks justice,

and a wicked mouth swallows iniquity.

Precious treasure and oil are in the dwelling of a wise person,

but a fool consumes them.[fn]

The words from the mouth of a wise person are gracious,

but the lips of a fool consume him.

Youths oppress my people,

and women rule over them.

My people, your leaders mislead you;

they confuse the direction of your paths.

The leaders of the people mislead them,

and those they mislead are swallowed up.[fn]

Egypt’s spirit will be disturbed within it,

and I will frustrate its plans.

Then they will inquire of worthless idols, ghosts,

mediums, and spiritists.

On this mountain

he will swallow up the burial shroud,

the shroud over all the peoples,

the sheet covering all the nations.

The fading flower of his beautiful splendor,

which is on the summit above the rich valley,

will be like a ripe fig before the summer harvest.

Whoever sees it will swallow it

while it is still in his hand.

Even these stagger because of wine

and stumble under the influence of beer:

Priest and prophet stagger because of beer.

They are confused by wine.

They stumble because of beer.

They are muddled in their visions.

They stumble in their judgments.

“For your waste and desolate places

and your land marked by ruins

will now be indeed too small for the inhabitants,

and those who swallowed you up will be far away.

“King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has devoured me;

he has crushed me.

He has set me aside like an empty dish;

he has swallowed me like a sea monster;

he filled his belly with my delicacies;

he has vomited me out.[fn]

Without compassion the Lord has swallowed up

all the dwellings of Jacob.

In his wrath he has demolished

the fortified cities of Daughter Judah.

He brought them to the ground

and defiled the kingdom and its leaders.

The Lord is like an enemy;

he has swallowed up Israel.

He swallowed up all its palaces

and destroyed its fortified cities.

He has multiplied mourning and lamentation

within Daughter Judah.

The LORD determined to destroy

the wall of Daughter Zion.

He stretched out a measuring line

and did not restrain himself from destroying.

He made the ramparts and walls grieve;

together they waste away.

All your enemies

open their mouths against you.

They hiss and gnash their teeth,

saying, “We have swallowed her up.

This is the day we have waited for!

We have lived to see it.”

Indeed, they sow the wind

and reap the whirlwind.

There is no standing grain;

what sprouts fails to yield flour.

Even if they did,

foreigners would swallow it up.

The LORD appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

Your eyes are too pure to look on evil,

and you cannot tolerate wrongdoing.

So why do you tolerate those who are treacherous?

Why are you silent

while one[fn] who is wicked swallows up

one[fn] who is more righteous than himself?