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Hebrew verb · H887

בָּאַשׁ

baashbaw-ash'

to stink

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

Concordance spelling: bâʼash

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H887is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 9 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 16
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H887

to smell bad; figuratively, to be offensive morally

The King James renders it: (make to) be abhorred (had in abomination, loathsome, odious), (cause a, make to) stink(-ing savour), [idiom] utterly.

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

baash is rendered "to stink". It stands 17 times in the Hebrew text, across nine 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 34:30Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”
  • The Greek text spells it sixteen different ways.

The first use

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”

Genesis 34:30לְהַבְאִישֵׁ֙נִי֙

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

Where the word stands

Six of the word's seventeen uses are in Exodus.

The other 30 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

  • and it stank3
  • they had made themselves odious2
  • and it will stink1
  • by making odious me1
  • certainly to become odious1
  • he acts odiously1
  • he has become odious1
  • it causes to stink1
  • it has made itself odious1
  • it stank1
  • it will stink1
  • they stink1

and 2 more, 17 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.

בָּאַרbaarto make plainUses3

All 17, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

16 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

  • יַבְאִ֥ישׁ2
  • הִבְאִ֔ישׁ1
  • הִבְאִישׁ֙1
  • הִבְאִ֣ישׁוּ1
  • הַבְאֵ֤שׁ1
  • הִבְאַשְׁתֶּ֣ם1
  • הִֽתְבָּאֲשׁ֖וּ1
  • וּבָאַ֣שׁ1
  • וַיִּבְאַ֣שׁ1
  • וַיִּבְאַ֑שׁ1
  • וַתִּבְאַ֖שׁ1
  • לְהַבְאִישֵׁ֙נִי֙1

and 4 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • Hc/Vqw3ms2Hc/Vqw3ms
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVhi3ms
  • verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVhp3ms
  • Hc/Vqq3ms1Hc/Vqq3ms
  • Hc/Vqw3fs1Hc/Vqw3fs
  • preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HR/Vhcc/Sp1bs
  • verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolute1HVhaa
  • verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine plural1HVhp2mp
  • verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVhp3cp
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVNp2ms
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVNp3cp
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVNp3ms

Genesis

one use
  • Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”

    Genesis 34:30

    • לְהַבְאִישֵׁ֙נִי֙lehavishenipreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: by making odious me

Exodus

six uses
  • “May the LORD look upon you and judge you,” the foremen said, “for you have made us a stench before Pharaoh and his officials; you have placed in their hand a sword to kill us!”

    Exodus 5:21

    • הִבְאַשְׁתֶּ֣םhivashtemverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you have made stink
  • The fish in the Nile will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink its water.’”

    Exodus 7:18

    • וּבָאַ֣שׁuvaashHc/Vqq3mstagged: and it will stink
  • The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. And there was blood throughout the land of Egypt.

    Exodus 7:21

    • וַיִּבְאַ֣שׁvaiyivashHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it stank
  • They were piled into countless heaps, and there was a terrible stench in the land.

    Exodus 8:14

    • וַתִּבְאַ֖שׁvativashHc/Vqw3fstagged: and it stank
  • But they did not listen to Moses; some people left part of it until morning, and it became infested with maggots and began to smell. So Moses was angry with them.

    Exodus 16:20

    • וַיִּבְאַ֑שׁvaiyivashHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it stank
  • So they set it aside until morning as Moses had commanded, and it did not smell or contain any maggots.

    Exodus 16:24

    • הִבְאִ֔ישׁhivishverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it stank

1 Samuel

three uses
  • And all Israel heard the news: “Saul has attacked an outpost of the Philistines, and now Israel has become a stench to the Philistines!” Then the people were summoned to join Saul at Gilgal.

    1 Samuel 13:4

    • נִבְאַשׁnivashverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has made itself odious
  • So Achish trusted David, thinking, “Since he has made himself an utter stench to his people Israel, he will be my servant forever.”

    1 Samuel 27:12

    • הַבְאֵ֤שׁhaveshverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to become odious
    • הִבְאִישׁ֙hivishverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has become odious

2 Samuel

two uses
  • When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, they hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth-rehob and Zoba, as well as a thousand men from the king of Maacah and twelve thousand men from Tob.

    2 Samuel 10:6

    • נִבְאֲשׁ֖וּnivashuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had made themselves odious
  • Ahithophel replied, “Sleep with your father’s concubines, whom he has left to keep the palace. When all Israel hears that you have become a stench to your father, then the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.”

    2 Samuel 16:21

    • נִבְאַ֣שְׁתָּnivashtaverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have made yourself odious

1 Chronicles

one use
  • When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen from Aram-naharaim, Aram-maacah, and Zobah.

    1 Chronicles 19:6

    • הִֽתְבָּאֲשׁ֖וּhitbaashuverb · reflexive (hithpael), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had made themselves odious

Psalms

one use
  • My wounds are foul and festering because of my sinful folly.

    Psalms 38:5

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

Proverbs

one use
  • The righteous hate falsehood, but the wicked bring shame and disgrace.

    Proverbs 13:5

    • יַבְאִ֥ישׁyavishverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he acts odiously

Ecclesiastes

one use
  • As dead flies bring a stench to the perfumer’s oil, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

    Ecclesiastes 10:1

    • יַבְאִ֥ישׁyavishverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it causes to stink

Isaiah

one use
  • Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.

    Isaiah 50:2

    • תִּבְאַ֤שׁtivashverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will stink

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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