H1090b H1090b
Bilhah (place name: town in Simeon, likely same as Baalah and Balah)
This place name appears in 1 Chronicles 4:29 as a Simeonite settlement, probably identical to Baalah (Joshua 15:29) and Balah (Joshua 19:3), representing orthographic variants of the same town. The uncertainty about the site's identification reflects the textual variations and the challenge of locating small settlements in the Negev after centuries of shifting populations.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Geographic designation in 1 Chronicles 4:29 for a Simeonite town. The prepositional phrase 'and in Bilhah' marks this as one location in a series of settlements, with the variant spelling reflecting manuscript traditions or dialectal differences in pronouncing the town's name. 1×
AR["وَ-في-بِلهَة"]·ben["ও-বিলহায়"]·DE["[ובבלהה]"]·EN["and-in-Bilhah"]·FR["[ובבלהה]"]·heb["ובבלהה"]·HI["और-बिल्हा-में"]·ID["dan-di-Bilha"]·IT["[ובבלהה]"]·jav["lan-ing-Bilha"]·KO["그-와-에-빌하"]·PT["E-em-Bilhah"]·RU["и-в-Билге"]·ES["Y-en-Bilha"]·SW["na-huko-Bilha"]·TR["ve-Bilha'da"]·urd["اور-میں-بلہہ"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† II. בִּלהָה n.pr.loc. a city of Simeon 1 Ch 4:29, prob. = בַּעֲלָה Jos 15:29, בָּלָה 19:3 cf. Di; site dub.