Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50415 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

balackBalak

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it: 155 times in 98 works
Consistency: 100% (155 of 155)
Reach if approved: ~163 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 155 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (155 changes in 98 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 155)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Balaam had gone against the express Counsel and Command of God, to listen to BalackBalak to gratifie his malicious desires, the Angel of the Lord met him, and withstood …
With rule
… Balaam had gone against the express Counsel and Command of God, to listen to BalackBalak to gratifie his malicious desires, the Angel of the Lord met him, and withstood …
Thomas Hooker · The Application of Redemption · p. 423 · Open in the reader
Printed
… froward is carried headlong: did not the wiſe God do this to Pharaoh, to BalackBalak, to Saul, to Achitophel, to Haman? did he not exceed them, and diſapoint them?
With rule
… froward is carried headlong: did not the wiſe God do this to Pharaoh, to BalackBalak, to Saul, to Achitophel, to Haman? did he not exceed them, and diſapoint them?
Obadiah Sedgwick · The Bowels of Tender Mercy Sealed in the Everlasting Covenant · p. 37 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but there is hardly any given to the wicked, whereupon they sin not, as BalackBalak by the counsell of Balaam cast a stumbling block before the …, yet Phinehas did …
With rule
… but there is hardly any given to the wicked, whereupon they sin not, as BalackBalak by the counsell of Balaam cast a stumbling block before the …, yet Phinehas did …
Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 559 · Open in the reader
Printed
… witch of Endor, as Saul did, 2. Sam. 28. or to the wizzard of Pethor, as BalackBalak did, Numb. 22. or to the sorcerer and figure-flinger of Babel, as Nebuchadnetzer did …
With rule
… witch of Endor, as Saul did, 2. Sam. 28. or to the wizzard of Pethor, as BalackBalak did, Numb. 22. or to the sorcerer and figure-flinger of Babel, as Nebuchadnetzer did …
William Perkins · Commentary on Galatians 1-5 · p. 582 · Open in the reader
Printed
… what a worthy anſwer he made, though himſelf were a moſt unworthy man. If BalackBalak would giue me his houſe full of ſilver and gold, I cannot goe beyond …
With rule
… what a worthy anſwer he made, though himſelf were a moſt unworthy man. If BalackBalak would giue me his houſe full of ſilver and gold, I cannot goe beyond …
William Bradshaw · A Mild and Just Defense of Certain Arguments · p. 160 · Open in the reader
Printed
… from the children of Amon, and from the Philiſtims? O my people, remember what BalackBalak King of Moab conſulted, and what Balaam the ſonne of Beor anſwered from Shittim …
With rule
… from the children of Amon, and from the Philiſtims? O my people, remember what BalackBalak King of Moab conſulted, and what Balaam the ſonne of Beor anſwered from Shittim …
Robert Abbot · The Young Mans Warning-Piece · p. 88 · Open in the reader
Printed
… men deſire God to bleſs them in the Commiſſion of ſome ſin. As when BalackBalak and Balaam offered Sacrifices, that they might proſper in the Curſing of the Iſraelites …
With rule
… men deſire God to bleſs them in the Commiſſion of ſome ſin. As when BalackBalak and Balaam offered Sacrifices, that they might proſper in the Curſing of the Iſraelites …
Stephen Charnock · Existence and Attributes of God · p. 78 · Open in the reader
Printed
… or to make any thing or perſon accurſed. It was a great brag which BalackBalak made of Balaam, (Numb. 22.6) I wot (ſaith he) that he whom thou bleſſest is …
With rule
… or to make any thing or perſon accurſed. It was a great brag which BalackBalak made of Balaam, (Numb. 22.6) I wot (ſaith he) that he whom thou bleſſest is …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 1-3 · p. 330 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.