Balaam Definition

bāləm
noun
A prophet hired to curse the Israelites: when he beat his donkey, the animal rebuked him: Num. 22-24
Webster's New World

(slang, archaic, journalism) A paragraph describing something wonderful, used to fill out a newspaper column.

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pronoun

A diviner in the Torah.

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Noun

Singular:
Balaam
Plural:
balaams

Origin of Balaam

  • The journalism sense is an allusion to the miracle of Balaam's ass speaking; see talk out one's ass.

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Balaam Sentence Examples

  • The ass had been introduced into the ritual of the church in the 9th century, representing either Balaam's ass, that which stood with the ox beside the manger at Bethlehem, that which carried the Holy Family into Egypt, or that on which Christ rode in triumph into Jerusalem.

  • The service opened with a procession of Old Testament characters, prophets, patriarchs and kings, together with heathen prophets, including Virgil, the chief figure being Balaam on his ass.

  • Balak, king of Moab, became alarmed, and sent for Balaam to curse Israel; Balaam came after some hesitation, but when he sought to curse Israel Yahweh compelled him to bless them.

  • The main passage concerning Balaam in Num.

  • Balak, king of Moab, alarmed at the Israelite conquests, sends elders of Moab and Midian to Balaam, son of Beor, to the land of Ammon, to induce him to come and curse Israel.

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