Balak: meaning of the name

Balak in Hebrew and Greek

Who named Balak in the Bible

• Balak, son of Zippor

  41 verses · first mentioned in Numbers 22:2

Balak in Scripture

“Balak” appears in 40 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• Numbers 22:2

  And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.

• Numbers 22:4

  And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.

• Numbers 22:7

  And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak.

• Numbers 22:10

  And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me, saying,

• Numbers 22:13

  And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for the Lord refuseth to give me leave to go with you.

• Numbers 22:14

  And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and said, Balaam refuseth to come with us.

• Numbers 22:15

  And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honourable than they.

• Numbers 22:16

  And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me: