בָּעָה
baa · ask, seek; boil up
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1158 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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baa (בָּעָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “ask, seek; boil up”.
To ask, to seek; the basic idea is to swell or boil up.
How to say it
ba·a
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- To search for something carefully, asking or ransacking until it is found.
- To make something boil, or swell and bulge, like a wall about to fall.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- inquire ×2
- bulging out ×1
- makes boil ×1
- sought out ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Isaiah 21:12
The watchman said, “Morning comes, and also night. If you will inquire, inquire; come back, come.”
- Isaiah 30:13
therefore this iniquity will be to you like a breach about to fall, bulging out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant.
- Isaiah 64:2
as fire kindles dry branches, as fire makes water boil, to make known your name to your adversaries! Before you nations will tremble.
- Obadiah 1:6
How Esau has been searched out, his hidden treasures sought out!
And 1 more times.