Word study
Mix
6 Hebrew and 1 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: mixed, mixes, mix, mixing. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
At a glance
How often each original word is translated “mix” or one of its forms.
Compare the Hebrew words side by side
Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- בָּלַל bâlalmingle, mix, confuse, confoundtranslated this way 39 times of its 43 uses · Strong’s H1101Verb · Translated: mixed 38, confuse 1, confused 1, fed 1Full study and all 41 verses →
Exodus 29:2 along with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,
Leviticus 2:4 Now if you bring an offering of grain baked in an oven, it must consist of fine flour, either unleavened cakes mixed with oil or unleavened wafers coated with oil.
- מָסַךְ mâsakmix, produce by mixingtranslated this way 4 times of its 5 uses · Strong’s H4537Verb · Translated: mixed 3, mixing 1, poured 1Full study and all 5 verses →
Psalm 102:9 For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears
Proverbs 9:2 She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine; she has also set her table.
- עֲרַב ărabmixtranslated this way 4 times of its 4 uses · Strong’s H6151Verb · Translated: mixed 2, mix with one another 1, mixes 1Full study and all 2 verses →
Daniel 2:41 And just as you saw that the feet and toes were made partly of fired clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom, yet some of the strength of iron will be in it — just as you saw the iron mixed with clay.
Daniel 2:43 As you saw the iron mixed with clay, so the peoples will mix with one another but will not hold together any more than iron mixes with clay.
- עֵרֶב êrebmixture, mixed companytranslated this way 3 times of its 15 uses · Strong’s H6154Noun · Translated: knit 9, mixed tribes 2, mixed 1, foreign descent 1Full study and all 15 verses →
Exodus 12:38 And a mixed multitude also went up with them, along with great droves of livestock, both flocks and herds.
Jeremiah 25:20 all the mixed tribes; all the kings of Uz; all the kings of the Philistines: Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;
- רָקַח râqachmixtranslated this way 3 times of its 8 uses · Strong’s H7543Verb · Translated: perfumer 2Full study and all 8 verses →
Exodus 30:33 Anyone who mixes perfume like it or puts it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people.’”
1 Chronicles 9:30 And some of the sons of the priests mixed the spices.
- מַמְסָךְ mamsâkmixed drinktranslated this way 2 times of its 2 uses · Strong’s H4469Noun · Translated: mixed drinks 1, bowls of mixed wine 1Full study and all 2 verses →
Proverbs 23:30 Those who linger over wine, who go to taste mixed drinks.
Isaiah 65:11 But you who forsake the LORD, who forget My holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,
Greek words (New Testament)
- μίγνυμι mígnymiI mix, mingletranslated this way 4 times of its 4 uses · Strong’s G3396Verb · Translated: mixed 4Full study and all 4 verses →
Matthew 27:34 they offered Him wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, He refused to drink it.
Luke 13:1 At that time some of those present told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
How to study a word well
- Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
- Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
- Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
- Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
- See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.
Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.