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Baashaבַּעְשָׁאlay downוַיִּשְׁכַּבwithעִםhis fathersאֲבֹתָיוand was buriedוַיִּקָּבֵרin Tirzah;בְּתִרְצָהand Elahוַ אֵלָהhis sonבְנוֹreignedיִּמְלֹךְin his place.תַּחְתָּיו
1 Kings 16:6
Study it in the app“Baasha lay down with his fathers and was buried in Tirzah; and Elah his son reigned in his place.”
With the Hebrew beneath
1 Kings 16:6, word by word
- Baashaבַּעְשָׁאbasha
Baasha
Baasha: a name of uncertain meaning. It is the man of Issachar who conspired against Nadab, wiped out the house of Jeroboam and reigned twenty-four years over Israel (1 Kings 15:27–16:7).
Where else “basha” appears- lay downיִּשְׁכַּבyishkav
sleep in death
To die, like lying down to sleep beside one's ancestors.
Where else “yishkav” appears- his fathersאֲבֹתָיavotay
forefather
Ancestors, those who came before in the family.
Where else “avotay” appears- and was buriedיִּקָּבֵרyikaver
bury
Bury.
Where else “yikaver” appears- in Tirzahתִרְצָהtirtsa
Tirzah
Tirzah, one of the five daughters of Zelophehad; also a city of Canaan. The name means "delight."
Where else “tirtsa” appears- and Elahאֵלָהela
Elah
Elah, the name of several men (a chief of Edom; a king of Israel) and of the valley of Elah in Judah, where David defeated Goliath. As a common word it means "oak" or "terebinth".
Where else “ela” appears- his sonבְנven
son
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “ven” appears- reignedיִּמְלֹךְyimloch
reign
To be king of a people, or to begin ruling it as king.
Where else “yimloch” appears
The context
5The rest of the deeds of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
6 · This verse (above)
7Also, through Jehu son of Hanani the prophet, the word of YHWH came to Baasha and to his house, because of all the evil that he did in the eyes of YHWH, provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, becoming like the house of Jeroboam, and because he struck him.