Lexical Summary baah: to inquire, cause to swell or boil up Original Word: בָּעָהTransliteration: baah Phonetic Spelling: (baw-aw') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to inquire, cause to swell or boil up Meaning: to gush over, to swell, to desire earnestly, to ask Strong's Concordance cause, inquire, seek up, swell out A primitive root; to gush over, i.e. To swell; (figuratively) to desire earnestly; by implication to ask -- cause, inquire, seek up, swell out. Brown-Driver-Briggs H1158. baah [בָּעָה] verb inquire, cause to swell or boil up (Late Hebrew id; Arabic seek, suppurate, swell; Aramaic בְּעָא, seek) — Qal Imperfect3feminine singular תִּבְעֶה Isaiah 64:1-2;masculine plural תִּבְעָיוּן 21:12; Imperative בְּעָיוּ 21:12; — a. of rising desire, seek, inquire, absolute, of inquiring of prophet 21:12 (twice in verse). 2 cause to boil up, תִּב אֵֿשׁ׳מַיִם 64:1 (but gloss Che). Niph`al Perfect נִבְעוּ Obadiah 6 searched out ("" נֶחְמְּשׂוּ); Participle נִבְעֶה Isaiah 30:13 swelling, swelling out (of decaying wall; Di swelling, enlarging, of crack in wall). בעז (quick ? compare Arabic swiftness (of horse)). |
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