Strong’s H1082 · Hebrew
בָּלַג
bâlag · baw-lag'
Origin a primitive root;
Meaning to break off or loose (in a favorable or unfavorable sense), i.e. desist (from grief) or invade (with destruction)
In the King James Version comfort, (recover) strength(-en).
In 4 verses of the King James Version
- Job 9:27If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
- Job 10:20Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
- Psalms 39:13O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
- Amos 5:9That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.