H1110

בָּלַק

ba.laqH:V

to waste

1) to waste, lay waste, devastate 1a) (Poel) to make waste 1b) (Pual) devastated (participle)

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

[בָּלַק] verb waste, lay waste (Assyrian balâ‡u, Pi`el destroy, LyonSargon 61; compare Arabic a desert) —

Po`el Participle without מ, suffix בּוֺלְקָהּ Isa 24:1 (|| בּוֺקֵק, subject ׳י, object הארץ); — on form (which might also be Qal Participle) compare Ol§ 254 LagGN 1882, 403; also בקק Po. Jer 51:2, and intensive use of Infinitive absolute Niph`al Isa 24:3 further Punic (i.e. intensive) Participle Nah 2:11 (this however perhaps largely influenced by assonance). Pu`al Participle מְבֻלָּקָ֑ה Nah 2:11 (׳בּוּקָה וּמְבוּקָה ומב), devastated, or as substantive a devastated city.


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