balaam

Strong’sG903

Balaam

stem balaam-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books1 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

Βαλαάμ, ὁ, indecl.

(Heb. בִּלְעָם), as in LXX (FlJ has ὁ βάλαμος);

Balaam (Nu 22-24): II Pe 2:15, Ju 11, Re 2:14.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G903 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidbal-ah-am'

Balaam, a Mesopotamian (symbolic of a false teacher)

Fromof Hebrew origin ();

King JamesBalaam.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

Βαλαάμ, ὁ, indecl. (Heb. בִּלְעָם), as in LXX (FlJ has ὁ βάλαμος);
Balaam (Num.22-24): 2Pe.2:15, Ju 11, Rev.2:14.†
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

Balaam2×Balaam’s1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	balaam	balaam
object accusative	balaam	balaam
direct address vocative	balaam	balaam
of, belonging to genitive	balaam3×Βαλαὰμ	balaam
to, for dative	balaam	balaam

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

balaamstem

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

3 occurrences, every one of them listed

balaam“Balaam”of, belonging togenitive singular3×

2 Peter 2:15… hodan planila, exakoloutharantois ta hoda tou Balaam tou Bosor hos misthon adikiau agapata… off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the …

Jude 1:11“Balaam’s”… Kain poreuila, kai ta plana tou Balaam misthou ekchila, kai ta antilogia tou …… have traveled the path of Cain; they have rushed for profit into the error of Balaam; they have perished in Korah’s rebellion.

Revelation 2:14… hoti echasō ekei kratarōntoin tan didachan Balaam, hos didaskate to Balak balara skandalem …… you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a …