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Hebrew verb · H1310

בָּשַׁל

bashalbaw-shal'

to boil

28 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: bâshal

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1310is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 14 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 24
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H1310

properly, to boil up; hence, to be done in cooking; figuratively to ripen

The King James renders it: bake, boil, bring forth, roast, seethe, sod (be sodden).

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

bashal is rendered "to boil". It stands 28 times in the Hebrew text, across fourteen books.

  • Six of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 40:10and on the vine were three branches. As it budded, its blossoms opened and its clusters ripened into grapes.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-four different ways.

The first use

and on the vine were three branches. As it budded, its blossoms opened and its clusters ripened into grapes.

Genesis 40:10הִבְשִׁ֥ילוּ

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in fourteen of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 25 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • you will boil3
  • boil2
  • they will boil2
  • and cook1
  • and she cooked1
  • and they boiled1
  • and they cooked1
  • and they will boil1
  • and we cooked1
  • and you will boil1
  • and you will cook1
  • being boiled1

and 12 more, 28 uses in all

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.

בָּשָׂרbasarfleshUses270
בָּשַׂרbasarto bear tidingsUses24
בָּשֵׁלbashelcookedUses2
בָּשָׂםbasamspiceUses1
בָּשַׁסbashasto trampleUses1

All 28, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

24 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

  • תְבַשֵּׁ֥ל3
  • יְבַשְּׁלוּ־2
  • מְבֻשָּׁ֖ל2
  • בָשַׁ֖ל1
  • בֻּשָּׁ֔לָה1
  • בִּשְּׁל֗וּ1
  • בִּשְּׁל֖וּ1
  • בַּשְּׁל֣וּ1
  • בַּשֵּׁ֔לוּ1
  • בָּשְׁל֥וּ1
  • בִּשְּׁלָ֣ם1
  • הִבְשִׁ֥ילוּ1

and 12 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular3HVpi2ms
  • Hc/Vpq2ms2Hc/Vpq2ms
  • Hc/Vpq3cp2Hc/Vpq3cp
  • verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural2HVpi3mp
  • verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural2HVpp3cp
  • verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singular2HVPsmsa
  • verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine plural2HVpv2mp
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singular1HC/Vpv2ms
  • Hc/Vpw1cp1Hc/Vpw1cp
  • Hc/Vpw3fs1Hc/Vpw3fs
  • Hc/Vpw3mp1Hc/Vpw3mp
  • preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vpcc

Genesis

one use
  • and on the vine were three branches. As it budded, its blossoms opened and its clusters ripened into grapes.

    Genesis 40:10

    • הִבְשִׁ֥ילוּhivshiluverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they ripened

Exodus

six uses
  • Do not eat any of the meat raw or cooked in boiling water, but only roasted over the fire—its head and legs and inner parts.

    Exodus 12:9

    • מְבֻשָּׁ֖לmevushalverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: being boiled
  • He told them, “This is what the LORD has said: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of complete rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. So bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil. Then set aside whatever remains and keep it until morning.’”

    Exodus 16:23

    • תְּבַשְּׁלוּ֙tevasheluverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will boil
    • בַּשֵּׁ֔לוּbasheluverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: boil
  • Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

    Exodus 23:19

    • תְבַשֵּׁ֥לtevashelverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you must boil
  • You are to take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place.

    Exodus 29:31

    • וּבִשַּׁלְתָּ֥uvishaltaHc/Vpq2mstagged: and you will boil
  • Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

    Exodus 34:26

    • תְבַשֵּׁ֥לtevashelverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will boil

Leviticus

three uses
  • The clay pot in which the sin offering is boiled must be broken; if it is boiled in a bronze pot, the pot must be scoured and rinsed with water.

    Leviticus 6:28

    • תְּבֻשַּׁל־tevushal-verb · intensive passive (pual), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be boiled
    • בֻּשָּׁ֔לָהbushalahverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it was boiled
  • And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, “Boil the meat at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and eat it there with the bread that is in the basket of ordination offerings, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons are to eat it.’

    Leviticus 8:31

    • בַּשְּׁל֣וּbasheluverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: boil

Numbers

one use
  • The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil.

    Numbers 11:8

    • וּבִשְּׁלוּ֙uvisheluHc/Vpq3cptagged: and they boiled

Deuteronomy

two uses
  • You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

    Deuteronomy 14:21

    • תְבַשֵּׁ֥לtevashelverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will boil
  • And you shall roast it and eat it in the place the LORD your God will choose, and in the morning you shall return to your tents.

    Deuteronomy 16:7

    • וּבִשַּׁלְתָּ֙uvishaltaHc/Vpq2mstagged: and you will cook

1 Samuel

two uses
  • or for the custom of the priests with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling

    1 Samuel 2:13

    • כְּבַשֵּׁ֣לkevashelpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: when boiled
  • Even before the fat was burned, the servant of the priest would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give the priest some meat to roast, because he will not accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.”

    1 Samuel 2:15

    • מְבֻשָּׁ֖לmevushalverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: boiled

2 Samuel

one use
  • So Tamar went to the house of her brother Amnon, who was lying down. She took some dough, kneaded it, made cakes in his sight, and baked them.

    2 Samuel 13:8

    • וַתְּבַשֵּׁ֖לvatevashelHc/Vpw3fstagged: and she cooked

1 Kings

one use
  • So Elisha turned back from him, took his pair of oxen, and slaughtered them. With the oxen’s equipment, he cooked the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow and serve Elijah.

    1 Kings 19:21

    • בִּשְּׁלָ֣םbishelamverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: he cooked them

2 Kings

two uses
  • When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, he said to his attendant, “Put on the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.”

    2 Kings 4:38

    • וּבַשֵּׁ֥לuvashelconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and cook
  • So we boiled my son and ate him, and the next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son, that we may eat him.’ But she had hidden her son.”

    2 Kings 6:29

    • וַנְּבַשֵּׁ֥לvanevashelHc/Vpw1cptagged: and we cooked

2 Chronicles

two uses
  • They roasted the Passover animals on the fire according to the regulation, and they boiled the other holy offerings in pots, kettles, and bowls and quickly brought them to all the people.

    2 Chronicles 35:13

    • וַֽיְבַשְּׁל֥וּvayvasheluHc/Vpw3mptagged: and they cooked
    • בִּשְּׁל֗וּbisheluverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they boiled

Lamentations

one use
  • The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

    Lamentations 4:10

    • בִּשְּׁל֖וּbisheluverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have boiled

Ezekiel

four uses
  • Take the choicest of the flock and pile the fuel beneath it. Bring it to a boil and cook the bones in it.’

    Ezekiel 24:5

    • בָּשְׁל֥וּbasheluverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have cooked
  • and said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them into the outer court and transmit holiness to the people.”

    Ezekiel 46:20

    • יְבַשְּׁלוּ־yevashelu-verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will boil
  • And he said to me, “These are the kitchens where those who minister at the temple will cook the sacrifices offered by the people.”

    Ezekiel 46:24

    • הַֽמְבַשְּׁלִ֔יםhamvashelimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: those boil
    • יְבַשְּׁלוּ־yevashelu-verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will boil

Joel

one use
  • Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full; the wine vats overflow because their wickedness is great.

    Joel 3:13

    • בָשַׁ֖לvashalverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has grown ripe

Zechariah

one use
  • Indeed, every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holy to the LORD of Hosts, and all who sacrifice will come and take some pots and cook in them. And on that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD of Hosts.

    Zechariah 14:21

    • וּבִשְּׁל֣וּuvisheluHc/Vpq3cptagged: and they will boil

The letters

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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