bashal · ripen; boil

What it means

bashal (בָּשַׁל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “ripen; boil”.

Cook, boil; also ripen.

How to say it

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

1. To prepare food over the fire in a pot with water.
2. To come to its point, like fruit or grain ready to harvest.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• boil ×10
• boiled ×4
• cook ×3
• cooked ×3
• They cooked ×2
• it is boiled ×2
• kitchens ×1
• ripe ×1
• ripened ×1
• was boiling ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×6
• Leviticus×3
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×2
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×2
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×4
• Joel×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 40:10

  and on the vine were three branches; and as it budded, its blossoms came up, and its clusters ripened into grapes.

• Exodus 12:9

  Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all in water, but roasted in fire, its head with its legs and with its inner parts.

• Exodus 16:23

  He said to them, “This is what YHWH has said: ‘Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to YHWH. What you will bake, bake; and what you will boil, boil; and all that is left over put aside for yourselves to be kept until morning.’ ”

• Exodus 23:19

  The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of YHWH your Elohim. You shall not boil a young goat in the milk of its mother.

• Exodus 29:31

  You shall take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place.

• Exodus 34:26

  The best of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of YHWH your Elohim. You shall not boil a young goat in the milk of its mother.”

• Leviticus 6:28

  And the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken; and if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it shall be scoured and rinsed in water.

• Leviticus 8:31

  Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, “Boil the flesh at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and there eat it with the bread that is in the basket of ordination, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’

• Numbers 11:8

  The people would go about and gather it, and grind it in mills or beat it in a mortar, and boil it in pots, and make it into cakes; and its taste was like the taste of cakes baked with oil.

• Deuteronomy 14:21

  You shall not eat any carcass; to the resident alien who is within your gates you may give it, and he may eat it, or sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to YHWH your Elohim. You shall not boil a young goat in the milk of its mother.

• Deuteronomy 16:7

  And you shall cook it and eat it in the place that YHWH your Elohim chooses, and in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.

• 1 Samuel 2:13

  And the custom of the priests with the people was this: whenever any man sacrificed a sacrifice, the priest’s young man would come while the meat was boiling, with a fork of three prongs in his hand,

• 1 Samuel 2:15

  Even before they offered up the fat in smoke, the priest’s young man would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give meat to roast for the priest; he will not take boiled meat from you, but raw.”

• 2 Samuel 13:8

  Tamar went to the house of Amnon her brother, and he was lying down. She took the dough and kneaded it and made cakes before his eyes and cooked the cakes.

• 1 Kings 19:21

  He turned back from following him, and took the yoke of oxen and sacrificed it; and with the equipment of the oxen he boiled the meat, and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he got up and went after Elijah and ministered to him.

• 2 Kings 4:38

  Elisha returned to Gilgal, and there was the famine in the land. The sons of the prophets were sitting before him, and he said to his young man, “Put on the large pot and cook stew for the sons of the prophets.”

• 2 Kings 6:29

  So we cooked my son and ate him; and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, and let us eat him’; but she has hidden her son.”

• 2 Chronicles 35:13

  They cooked the Passover over the fire according to the rule, and the holy things they cooked in pots, in caldrons, and in pans, and brought them quickly to all the sons of the people.

• Lamentations 4:10

  The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became food for them in the shattering of the daughter of my people.

• Ezekiel 24:5

  Take the choicest of the flock, and also pile the bones under it; let its boiling boil; also let its bones be cooked in its midst.

• Ezekiel 46:20

  And he said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the grain offering, so as not to bring them out into the outer court to sanctify the people.”

• Ezekiel 46:24

  And he said to me, “These are the kitchens, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.”

• Joel 3:13

  Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe; come, tread, for the winepress is full; the vats overflow, for their evil is great.

• Zechariah 14:21

  And every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holiness to YHWH Tsevaot; and all who sacrifice will come and take from them and cook in them; and there will no longer be a merchant in the house of YHWH Tsevaot on that day.

And 4 more times.