H1173 H1173
Baalah: a city in Judah, identified with Kiriath-Jearim and Kiriath-Baal, a former center of Baal worship.
Baalah is a place name in the territory of Judah, meaning 'lady' or 'mistress,' pointing to an earlier association with Baal worship at a local high place. It is identified with Kiriath-Jearim (the city of forests) and Kiriath-Baal (the city of Baal), and appears in the boundary descriptions of Judah in Joshua 15:9-11. Notably, 1 Chronicles 13:6 mentions it as the place from which David brought up the ark. A second Baalah in Joshua 15:29 is a town in the Negev district. The Spanish rendering 'Baala' with its accent reflects the effort to preserve the Hebrew vowel pattern across languages.
Senses
1. sense 1 — A proper place name designating a city in Judah equated with Kiriath-Jearim and Kiriath-Baal (Josh 15:9-11; 1 Chr 13:6), from which David transported the ark. The name means 'mistress/lady,' signaling a pre-Israelite Canaanite cult site. A second location called Baalah in Joshua 15:29 lies in the southern Negev district. French and German glosses sometimes retain the untransliterated Hebrew, reflecting the difficulty of standardizing Canaanite theophoric place names. 5×
AR["إِلَى-بَعْلَةَ", "البَعْلةِ", "بَعْلةَ", "بَعْلةُ", "مِنْ-بَعْلةَ"]·ben["বালা", "বালা-থেকে", "বালাথে", "বালার"]·DE["Baalah", "[בעלתה]", "der-Baalah", "von-Baalah"]·EN["Baalah", "Baalatah", "from-Baalah", "the-Baalah"]·FR["Baalah", "[בעלתה]", "de-Baalah", "le-Baalah"]·heb["בעלה", "בעלתה-ה", "ה-בעלה", "מ-בעלה"]·HI["बआलाह", "बाला", "बाला-से"]·ID["Baala", "Baalah", "dari-Baala"]·IT["Baalah", "[בעלתה]", "da-Baalah", "il-Baalah"]·jav["Baala", "dhateng-Baala", "saking-Baala"]·KO["그-바알라의", "바알라", "바알라다-로", "바알라로", "에서-바알라에서"]·PT["Baalah", "Baalatah", "HaBaalah", "de-Baalah"]·RU["Баала", "Баалы", "в-Баалату", "в-Баалу", "от-Баалы"]·ES["Baalá", "a-Baalata", "desde-Baalá"]·SW["Baala", "kutoka-Baala"]·TR["Baala", "Baala'ya", "Baaladan", "Baalaya"]·urd["بعلہ", "بعلہ-سے", "بعلہ-کو"]
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. בַּעֲלָה n.pr.loc. Jos 15:9, 10, 11, 29 1 Ch 13:6 = קִרְיַת בַּעַל Jos 15:60; 18:14 (city of Baal, from a high place of Baal there) = בַּעֲלֵי יְהוּדָה 2 S 6:2 (We Dr read בעל; י added by dittogr.; so-called as seat of Baal-worship in Judah, in distinct. from like places elsewhere) = קִרְיַת יְעָרִים Jos 9:17 v. 15:9 1 Ch 13:6; a city of Judah;? Kirjat elʿEnab RobBR ii. 11 TristrTpg..