H1158: בָּעָה
bâʻâh · pronounced baw-aw' · “to enquire”
Definition
to gush over, i.e. to swell; (figuratively) to desire earnestly; by implication to ask
KJV translates it as: cause, inquire, seek up, swell out.
Word origin: a primitive root;
Extended definition
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to seek, enquire
1a2) to cause to boil up
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be searched out
1b2) to be swelling, bulging, swelling out
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H1158 is translated
- ! ×1
- enquire ×1
- bulging ×1
- it boils ×1
- they will be searched out ×1
Bible verses with H1158 (bâʻâh)
Bâʻâh appears in 4 verses.
- Isaiah 21:12
The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.
- Isaiah 30:13
Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
- Isaiah 64:2
As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
- Obadiah 1:6
How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!