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  #1104 בּלע bala` {beh'-lah}

 a primitive root; TWOT - 251; v

—Hebrew Word Study (Transliteration-Pronunciation Etymology & Grammar)


 1) to swallow down, swallow up, engulf, eat up
    1a) (Qal)
        1a1) to swallow down
        1a2) to swallow up, engulf
    1b) (Niphal) to be swallowed up
    1c) (Piel)
        1c1) to swallow
        1c2) to swallow up, engulf
        1c3) squandering (fig.)
    1d) (Pual) to be swallowed up
    1e) (Hithpael) to be ended

—Brown-Driver-Briggs (Old Testament Hebrew-English Lexicon)

A primitive root; to make away with (specifically by swallowing); generally to destroy:—cover, destroy, devour, eat up, be at end, spend up, swallow down (up).

—Strong's (Hebrew & Chaldee Dictionary of the Old Testament)

#1104.
בָּלַע
bala (118a); a prim. root; to swallow down, swallow up, engulf:—
NASB - brought to confusion(1), confound(1), confuse(2), confused(1), consume(1), destroy(1), destroyed(1), destroying(1), end(1), moment(1), removed(1), ruin(1), spreads(1), swallow(13), swallowed(18), swallows(4).

—NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries

 AV - swallow ... 34, destroy 9, devour 3, covered 1, at...end 1; 49

covered
Numbers 4:20.

destroy
Job 2:3; 8:18; 10:8. Psalms 55:9. Isaiah 3:12; 19:3; 25:7.

destroyed
Isaiah 9:16.

destroying
Lamentations 2:8.

devoured
Genesis 41:7, 24.

devoureth
Proverbs 19:28. Habakkuk 1:13.

down
Job 7:19; 20:15, 18.

end
Psalms 107:27.

swallowed
Exodus 15:12.

up
Exodus 7:12. Numbers 16:30, 32, 34; 26:10. Deuteronomy 11:6. 2 Samuel 17:16; 20:19, 20. Job 37:20. Psalms 21:9; 35:25; 69:15; 106:17; 124:3. Proverbs 1:12; 21:20. Ecclesiastes 10:12. Isaiah 25:8; 28:4, 7; 49:19. Jeremiah 51:34. Lamentations 2:2, 5, 5, 16. Hosea 8:7, 8. Jonah 1:17.