Beulah

We meet with this word but once in the Bible. (Isa. lx2: 4.) It should seem to be derived from Balak, or Baal - meon, lord of the house, or married.

Married, a term applied to the Israel of God, in Isa 62:4, to signify his intimate and vital union with them.\par

Beu’lah. (married). The name which the land of Israel is to bear when "the land shall be married." Isa 62:4.

("married".) Israel’s future name when restored to her divine Husband, Protector, and Lord (Isa 62:4; compare Isa 54:4-6).

(Heb. Beulah’, בְּעוּלָה, married; Sept. paraphrases οἰκουμένη) occurs in Isa 62:4, metaphorically of Judaea, as of a land desolated, but again filled with inhabitants, when “the land shall be married (תִּבָּעֵל),” referring to the return from Babylon; or it may be applied to the Jewish Church to denote the intimacy of its relation to God.

Beulah (beû’lah, or be-û’lah), married. This word is used metaphorically of Judea, as of a land which, though desolated, Jehovah would again delight in, and it should be filled with inhabitants. Isa 62:4.

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The land of Palestine shall be called Beulah, which signifies ’married,’ when the set time comes for Jehovah to bless Israel. Isa 62:4.

BEULAH (‘married’ [of a wife]).—An allegorical name applied to Israel by the Deutero-lsaiah (Isa 62:4-5). She was no longer to be a wife deserted by God, as she had been during the Captivity, but married (1) to God, (2) by a strange application of the figure, to her own sons.

bū´la (בּעוּלה, b^e‛ūlāh “married”): A name symbolically applied to Israel: “Thy land (shall be called) Beulah ... thy land shall be married.... so shall thy sons marry thee” (Isa 62:4 f). In this figure, frequently used since Hosea, the prophet wishes to express the future prosperity of Israel. The land once desolate shall again be populated.

Isa 62:4 (c) This name probably describes the Christian life in which the joy of the Lord, the fruits of righteousness and the glories of GOD permeate the soul.