baash · stink; be odious

What it means

baash (בָּאַשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “stink; be odious”.

Smell bad, stink; figuratively, become odious or make someone odious to others.

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 give off a bad smell, like what rots or is fouled.
2. To become hateful to others.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• stink ×5
• stank ×3
• He has made himself utterly odious ×2
• they had become odious ×2
• causes a stench ×1
• has become odious ×1
• making me odious ×1
• you have made us odious ×1
• you have made yourself odious ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×6
• 1 Samuel×3
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×1

• Genesis 34:30

  Jacob said to Simeon and to Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. And I have few men; if they gather against me and strike me, I will be destroyed, I and my house.”

• Exodus 5:21

  And they said to them, “May YHWH look upon you and judge, because you have made us odious in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants, putting a sword in their hand to kill us.”

• Exodus 7:18

  The fish that are in the Nile will die, and the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will loathe to drink water from the Nile.”’”

• Exodus 7:21

  The fish that were in the Nile died, and the Nile stank, and the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile; and the blood was in all the land of Egypt.

• Exodus 8:14

  They piled them up in heaps, heaps, and the land stank.

• Exodus 16:20

  But they did not listen to Moses; some men left some of it until morning, and it bred worms and stank; and Moses was angry with them.

• Exodus 16:24

  So they put it aside until morning, as Moses had commanded, and it did not stink, and there were no worms in it.

• 1 Samuel 13:4

  All Israel heard it said, “Saul has struck the garrison of the Philistines, and also Israel has become odious to the Philistines.” And the people were summoned after Saul at Gilgal.

• 1 Samuel 27:12

  Achish believed David, saying, “He has made himself utterly odious among his people, among Israel; so he will be my servant forever.”

• 2 Samuel 10:6

  When the sons of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David, the sons of Ammon sent and hired Aram of Beth-rehob and Aram of Zobah, twenty thousand foot soldiers, and the king of Maacah, a thousand men, and the men of Tob, twelve thousand men.

• 2 Samuel 16:21

  Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to your father’s concubines, whom he left to keep the house; and all Israel will hear that you have made yourself odious to your father, and the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.”

• 1 Chronicles 19:6

  When the sons of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David, Hanun and the sons of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves from Aram-naharaim and from Aram of Maacah and from Zobah chariots and horsemen.

• Psalms 38:5

  My wounds stink, they fester because of my folly.

• Proverbs 13:5

  A word of falsehood the righteous hates, but the wicked causes a stench and brings reproach.

• Ecclesiastes 10:1

  Flies of death make stink, make ferment the oil of the perfumer; weightier than wisdom, than honor, is a little witlessness.

• Isaiah 50:2

  Why did I come, and there was no one; I called, and there was no one to answer? Is my hand really too short to ransom? Or is there no power in me to deliver? Look, by my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; their fish stink for lack of water, and die of thirst.

And 1 more times.