Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50819 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

balaacBalak

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

Puritas changed it: 58 times in 39 works
Consistency: 100% (58 of 58)
Reach if approved: ~61 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 58 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (58 changes in 39 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 58)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… England? were there thoſe in Pergamos, who taught the doctrine of Balaam, who taught BalaacBalak to caſt a ſtumbling block before the children of Iſrael, viz. By ſetting fair …
With rule
… England? were there thoſe in Pergamos, who taught the doctrine of Balaam, who taught BalaacBalak to caſt a ſtumbling block before the children of Iſrael, viz. By ſetting fair …
Samuel Rolle · Londons Resurrection · p. 356 · Open in the reader
Printed
BalaacBalak will not inrich Balaam, but first he must curse Gods people.
With rule
BalaacBalak will not inrich Balaam, but first he must curse Gods people.
Thomas Taylor · Peters Repentance · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for their dwelling alone in the land, and for their innumerable encrease, and whereas BalaacBalak envied their multitude, and would therefore have them ^x cursed that they might be …
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… for their dwelling alone in the land, and for their innumerable encrease, and whereas BalaacBalak envied their multitude, and would therefore have them ^x cursed that they might be …
Humphrey Lynde · A Case for the Spectacles · p. 179 · Open in the reader
Printed
… doctryne of y^t subtile sothsayer & cursed …harmer Balaā, which by pestilent coūsel caused kīg BalaacBalak to prouoke the children of Israell to work wickednesse, and so to haue the …
With rule
… doctryne of y^t subtile sothsayer & cursed …harmer Balaā, which by pestilent coūsel caused kīg BalaacBalak to prouoke the children of Israell to work wickednesse, and so to haue the …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
… destitute of the guard of his good Angels. VVretched Balaam that wizard went to BalaacBalak to curse the children of Israel: and as he went, it is said, the …
With rule
… destitute of the guard of his good Angels. VVretched Balaam that wizard went to BalaacBalak to curse the children of Israel: and as he went, it is said, the …
William Perkins · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 77 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it more odious, is heer called the Doctrine of Balaam, who gaue counsell to BalaacBalak, to entice the Israelites to fornicatiō, so as afterwards they might more freely commit …
With rule
… it more odious, is heer called the Doctrine of Balaam, who gaue counsell to BalaacBalak, to entice the Israelites to fornicatiō, so as afterwards they might more freely commit …
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… against Israel: Doeth hee not therein acknowledge, That whereas hee was hired by King BalaacBalak by some charme to hurt Gods People, (as being by Trade no better then …
With rule
… against Israel: Doeth hee not therein acknowledge, That whereas hee was hired by King BalaacBalak by some charme to hurt Gods People, (as being by Trade no better then …
Thomas Cooper · The Mystery of Witchcraft Discovering the Truth of Nature · p. 159 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Sectaries from the like. Thirdly, that it was the ſame doctrine that Balaam taught BalaacBalak to bring the Iſraelites to a curſe, when nothing elſe could do it. verſ …
With rule
… Sectaries from the like. Thirdly, that it was the ſame doctrine that Balaam taught BalaacBalak to bring the Iſraelites to a curſe, when nothing elſe could do it. verſ …
Henry Hammond · Of Idolatry · p. 15 · 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.