H1190 H1190
Baal-Shalishah (place name: location near Gilgal that sent firstfruits to Elisha)
This compound place name appears in 2 Kings 4:42 as the origin of a man who brought firstfruits bread to Elisha during a famine. The name may mean 'Baal of the three' or 'Baal of Shalishah.' It was located in Ephraim near Gilgal. The LXX renders it Baithsarisath, and it was approximately 15 miles from Diospolis according to Eusebius.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Names the source of the bread offering in 2 Kings 4:42. The prepositional phrase 'from Baal-Shalishah' identifies where the man traveled from to bring twenty loaves of barley and fresh grain to Elisha, who miraculously multiplied it to feed a hundred men, foreshadowing Jesus' feeding miracles. 1×
AR["مِنْ-بَعْلَ-شَلِيشَةَ"]·ben["বাল-শালিশা-থেকে"]·DE["von-Baal-Shalishah"]·EN["from-Baal-Shalishah"]·FR["de-Baal-Shalishah"]·heb["מ-בעל-שלשה"]·HI["बाल-शलीशाह-से"]·ID["dari-Baal-Salisa"]·IT["da-Baal-Shalishah"]·jav["saking-Baal-Salisa"]·KO["바알-샬리샤-에서"]·PT["de-Baal-Shalisha"]·RU["из-Бааль-Шалиши"]·ES["de-Baal-salisa"]·SW["Baal-Shalisha"]·TR["den-Baal-Salisa"]·urd["بعل-شلیشہ-سے"]
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
† בַּ֫עַל שָׁלִשָׁה n.pr.loc. 2 K 4:42, place in Ephraim near Gilgal; = Βαιθσαρισαθ LagOnom. 239, 2nd ed. 250 c. 15 m. from Dispolis. (? ב׳ n.pr. divin.)