ba.a.lah is a proper place name used for a boundary point, a listed locality, and a site identified with Kiriath-jearim.

The attested uses present ba.a.lah as a proper place name, most often in Joshua’s border descriptions, where it marks a point along the boundary and is twice identified with Kiriath-jearim; it also occurs in a locality list and in the account of David’s journey to that place.

1. Place name in boundary descriptions · dominant

   In Joshua 15:9 the proper noun marks where the border goes, and the APB renders the clause “the border bordered to Baalah—it is Kiriath-jearim.” Joshua 15:10 has the border turn westward from it, while Joshua 15:11 says the border passed “Mount Baalah.”

   Joshua 15:9Joshua 15:10Joshua 15:11
2. Named locality in lists and narrative · common

   Joshua 15:29 presents the proper noun among named places: “Baalah, Iyim, and Ezem.” In 1 Chronicles 13:6, the APB renders David and Israel going up to “Baalah,” identifying it there as Kiriath-jearim.

   Joshua 15:291 Chronicles 13:6

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB consistently presents the term as “Baalah,” adding “it is Kiriath-jearim” in Joshua 15:9 and identifying the destination similarly in 1 Chronicles 13:6. These renderings confirm the place-name setting rather than supply a separate lexical definition.