Words

בָּלַע H1104

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swallow

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

devour / swallow up

Note

The ears swallow the ears (41:7, 24); Aaron's staff swallows the magicians' (Exod 7:12); the earth swallows Korah (Num 16:30–34); the fish, Jonah (Jon 2:1). Concrete (39)

Rulings

39

Occurrences (2)

Genesis 41

• 41:7 And the thin ears swallowed the seven ears, the plump and the full. And Pharaoh awoke, and look: a dream.
• 41:24 And the thin ears swallowed the seven good ears. And I said to the magicians, and there was none telling me."