1. Balak (personal name) — The king of Moab who hired the prophet Balaam to curse Israel during the wilderness wanderings (Numbers 22-24). All occurrences — nominative, with prepositions (to/from Balak), and with conjunctions — refer to a single individual. Multilingual evidence unanimously confirms one referent: eng 'Balak', spa 'Balac', hin 'बालाक', arb 'بَالَاق', kor '발락', swa 'Balaki'. 43×
AR["بَالَاقَ","بَالَاقُ"]·ben["বালাক","বালাককে","বালাকের"]·DE["Balak"]·EN["Balak"]·FR["Balak"]·heb["בלק"]·HI["बालाक","बालाक-की","बालाक-के","बालाक-ने"]·ID["Balak"]·IT["Balak"]·jav["Balak"]·KO["발락","발락-과","발락-이"]·PT["Balaq"]·RU["Балак","Балака","Балаком","Балаку"]·ES["Balac"]·SW["Balaki"]·TR["Balak","Balak'a","Balak'la","Balak'ın"]·urd["بلق"]
Senses
BDB / Lexicon Reference
בָּלָק n.pr.m. (devastator) king of Moab, בּ׳ בֶּן צִפּוֹר Nu 22:2, 4, 7 + 37 times Nu 22–24 (all JE) + Jos 24:9 (E) Ju 11:25 Mi 6:5.