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Bileam

The ancient of the people; the devourer Bileam is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “the ancient of the people; the devourer.” This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Historical Reference: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
  • Historical Reference: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
  • Historical Reference: concordance
  • Historical Reference: Installed reference work

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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H1109
Hebrew
בִּלְעָם · Bilʻâm
Name meaning
the ancient of the people; the devourer According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Strong’s and original-language information

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

בִּלְעָם

H1109
Transliteration
Bilʻâm
Pronunciation
bil-awm'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
61

Glosses

Balaam, Bileam.

Lexicon definition

Bilam, a Mesopotamian prophet

also a place in Palestine

Greek lexical coverage

No safely matched Greek Strong’s entry

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The installed lexicons do not contain a sufficiently exact Greek word-level match for this study. UNLEARN leaves this language unassigned instead of displaying an unrelated Strong’s record.

Complete dictionary entries

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Bileam

the ancient of the people; the devourer

Source: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · View data sources

Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Bileam

Indexed occurrences: 1

Source: Strong's Concordance · View data sources

All Scripture references3 references

Topical Bible

Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Bileam

Meaning:
the ancient of the people; the devourer

Source: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · View data sources

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