Every Name in Tanakh

בַּעֲלִיס Baalis

Every verse in which this name stands — 1 place, in canonical order, first appearance to last. These are the occurrences our own corpus tags as this name, counting every form the text writes it in, which is the number on the list.

PersonGematria 172×1 named in TanakhFirst appearance:

An Ammonitish king. The name stands once in the Tanakh, at Jeremiah 40:14.

Jeremiah 40:14ירמיהו מ:יד

וַיֹּאמְרוּ אֵלָיו הֲיָדֹעַ תֵּדַע כִּי בַּעֲלִיס מֶלֶךְ בְּנֵֽי־עַמּוֹן שָׁלַח אֶת־יִשְׁמָעֵאל בֶּן־נְתַנְיָה לְהַכֹּתְךָ נָפֶשׁ וְלֹא־הֶאֱמִין לָהֶם גְּדַלְיָהוּ בֶּן־אֲחִיקָֽם

and said unto him: ‘Dost thou know that Baalis the king of the children of Ammon hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take thy life?’ But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.

Quick answers

What is the gematria of Baalis?

Baalis — בעליס in Hebrew — has a gematria of 172 in the standard method.

How many times is Baalis named in the Tanakh?

1 time, first at Jeremiah 40:14.

A spelling is not a name. The written word בעליס stands 1 time in the corpus, which is a different question and often a different number: the same letters can spell another name or an ordinary word, and a name written with a particle attached is a word that search never returns. It is here, as itself.

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