Word meanings
Senses and individuals
- rule: to marry H1166I 12
- rule: to rule H1166H · a Meaning of 2
- Married H1166G · a Name of 1
Strong's dictionary
a primitive root; also as denominative from בַּעַל; to be master; hence, to marry; have dominion (over), be husband, marry(-ried, [idiom] wife).
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
בָּעַל vb. marry, rule over
Qal
1. marry
2. rule over
Niph. be married
Every occurrence
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Genesis 20:3 בְּעֻ֥לַת be.'U.lat · An -ing word: simple action, it is done to the subject
But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, because of the woman whom thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.
American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.