Hebrew verb · H1158
בָּעָה
baahbaw-aw'
to enquire
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bâʻâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1158is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1158
to gush over, i.e. to swell; (figuratively) to desire earnestly; by implication to ask
The King James renders it: cause, inquire, seek up, swell out.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
baah is rendered "to enquire". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Four of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Isaiah 21:12The watchman replies, “Morning has come, but also the night. If you would inquire, then inquire. Come back yet again.”
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
The watchman replies, “Morning has come, but also the night. If you would inquire, then inquire. Come back yet again.”
Isaiah 21:12תִּבְעָי֥וּן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- bulging1
- enquire1
- it boils1
- they will be searched out1
- you will enquire1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בְּעָ֖יוּ1
- נִבְעֶ֖ה1
- נִבְע֖וּ1
- תִּבְעֶה־1
- תִּבְעָי֥וּן1
The grammar of each form
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVNp3cp
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singular1HVNrmsa
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nun1HVqi2mp/Sn
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVqi3fs
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural1HVqv2mp
Isaiah
four uses
The watchman replies, “Morning has come, but also the night. If you would inquire, then inquire. Come back yet again.”
- תִּבְעָי֥וּןtivayunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: you will enquire
- בְּעָ֖יוּbeayuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: enquire
this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly—in an instant!
- נִבְעֶ֖הnivehverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: bulging
as fire kindles the brushwood and causes the water to boil, to make Your name known to Your enemies, so that the nations will tremble at Your presence!
- תִּבְעֶה־tiveh-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it boils
Obadiah
one use
But how Esau will be pillaged, his hidden treasures sought out!
- נִבְע֖וּnivuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they will be searched out
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.