Strong’s H1172 · Hebrew
בַּעֲלָה
baʻălâh · bah-al-aw'
Origin feminine of בַּעַל (H1167);
Meaning a mistress
In the King James Version that hath, mistress.
In 3 verses of the King James Version
- 1 Samuel 28:7Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor.
- 1 Kings 17:17And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.
- Nahum 3:4Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
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.