Word meanings
Senses and individuals
- to mix H1101A 42
- to feed H1101B 1
Strong's dictionary
a primitive root; (also denominatively from בְּלִיל) to fodder; to overflow (specifically with oil.); by implication, to mix; to fodder; anoint, confound, [idiom] fade, mingle, mix (self), give provender, temper.
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
Every occurrence
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Genesis 11:7 וְנָבְלָ֥ה ve.na.ve.Lah · A wish or plan to act: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by us
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
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Genesis 11:9 בָּלַ֥ל ba.Lal · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it
Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because Jehovah did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did Jehovah scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.