to mix
ba.lal describes flour or bread prepared with oil, and in a few contexts the mixing or confusing of people or language.
The dominant use describes fine flour, loaves, or wafers prepared with oil in offering instructions. Less often, the verb concerns the confusing of language or a person's mixing among peoples; the supplied rendering for Psalm 92:11 does not clearly isolate its contribution.
Senses in use
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Flour or bread prepared with oil · dominant
Passive participles describe food items and grain offerings in an oil-prepared state. In Exodus 29:2 the APB renders unleavened loaves as “mixed with oil,” while Leviticus 7:12 places oil-prepared buns and flatbreads alongside the thanksgiving sacrifice; Numbers 7:13 describes a vessel filled with fine flour for a grain offering.
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Confusing a shared language · rare
In Genesis 11:7, the first-person plural cohortative occurs in the proposal to make people unable to understand one another's language. Genesis 11:9 then uses a Qal perfect in explaining why the place received its name; the APB renders the clause “there the LORD confused the language of all the earth.”
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Mixing oneself among peoples · rare
Hosea 7:8 uses a Hithpolel imperfect with Ephraim as the subject and the peoples as the setting of the action. The APB renders the clause, “Ephraim mixes himself among the peoples.”
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Unclear contribution in the supplied rendering · rare
Psalm 92:11 contains a Qal perfect, first common singular, but the supplied APB verse speaks of seeing enemies and hearing opponents without making this token's specific contribution identifiable. Its sense cannot be refined from the provided verse rendering.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the offering texts, the APB regularly uses “mixed with oil” or similar wording for the food and flour clauses. It renders the Genesis clauses with “confuse[d]” and Hosea 7:8 with “mixes himself”; Psalm 92:11 does not transparently reflect the token in the supplied translation.