H887: בָּאַשׁ
bâʼash · pronounced baw-ash' · “to stink”
Definition
to smell bad; figuratively, to be offensive morally
KJV translates it as: (make to) be abhorred (had in abomination, loathsome, odious), (cause a, make to) stink(-ing savour), [idiom] utterly.
Word origin: a primitive root;
Extended definition
1a) (Qal) to stink, smell bad
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to become odious
1b2) to make oneself odious
1c) (Hiphil)
1c1) to stink, emit a stinking odour
1c2) to cause to stink
1c3) of wickedness (fig.)
1d) (Hithpael) to make oneself odious
2) (TWOT) to abhor
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H887 is translated
- it stank ×4
- it will stink ×2
- they had made themselves odious ×2
- me ×1
- you have made stink ×1
- it has made itself odious ×1
- certainly to become odious ×1
- he has become odious ×1
- you have made yourself odious ×1
- they stink ×1
- he acts odiously ×1
- it causes to stink ×1
Bible verses with H887 (bâʼash)
Bâʼash appears in 16 verses.
- Genesis 34:30
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
- Exodus 5:21
And they said unto them, The Lord look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.
- Exodus 7:18
And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river.
- Exodus 7:21
And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 8:14
And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.
- Exodus 16:20
Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
- Exodus 16:24
And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.
- 1 Samuel 13:4
And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel also was had in abomination with the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal.
- 1 Samuel 27:12
And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever.
- 2 Samuel 10:6
And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth–rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ish–tob twelve thousand men.
- 2 Samuel 16:21
And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father’s concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong.
- 1 Chronicles 19:6
And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Syria–maachah, and out of Zobah.
- Psalms 38:5
My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
- Proverbs 13:5
A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
- Ecclesiastes 10:1
Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.
- Isaiah 50:2
Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.