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# בְּאֵשׁ

Biblical Aramaic

**be evil** — used 1 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

be evil [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc_5d0_5b5_5e9_5c1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בְּאֵשׁ: vb. be evil, bad [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc_5d0_5b5_5e9_5c1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be evil, bad (so 𝔗; Syriac ܒܶܐܫ; Old Aramaic באש Lzb 233 SAC 27 Cooke 191; cf.BH);— Pf. 3 ms. impers. ב׳ עֲלוֹהִי Dn 6:15 i.e. it was evil (displeasing) to him (cf.BH \[רעע\] 1).

### Jastrow 1903

בְּאֵישׁ: to be bad, displeasing to be ill, grow sick to be displeased, angry, troubled to make bad; to do evil; to harm one [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc_5d0_5b5_5e9_5c1/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** (h. בָּאַשׁ) to be bad, displeasing. Targ. Gen. XXI, 11; a. fr.—Y. Sabb. VIII, 11ᵃ bot. ובְאֵשׁ לר׳ וכ׳ it displeased R. … Y. Ber. III, 6ᵃ bot.; VII, 11ᶜ top; a. fr. to be ill, grow sick. Ned. 40ᵃ top. (with לבא, עינא, or נפשא) to be displeased, angry, troubled. Targ. Deut. XV, 9; 10 (some ed. יַבְאֵשׁ Af.). Targ. I Sam. I, 8; a. e.—Lam. R., introd., end נפשך בְּאִישָׁא עלך thou art discontented. to make bad; to do evil; to harm one (with ל or ב of the person). Targ. I Sam. XII, 25. Targ. Is. XIV, 20; a. fr.—Targ. Gen. XIX, 9. Ib. Y. XVI, 12; a. fr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it was displeasing (1).

## In the verses

[Daniel 6:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.15/#tree)

אֱדַ֨יִן מַלְכָּ֜א כְּדִ֧י מִלְּתָ֣א שְׁמַ֗ע שַׂגִּיא֙ בְּאֵ֣שׁ עֲל֔וֹהִי וְעַ֧ל דָּנִיֵּ֛אל שָׂ֥ם בָּ֖ל לְשֵׁיזָבוּתֵ֑הּ וְעַד֙ מֶֽעָלֵ֣י שִׁמְשָׁ֔א הֲוָ֥א מִשְׁתַּדַּ֖ר לְהַצָּלוּתֵֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* then the king as that the word he.heard exceedingly it.was.displeasing to him and concerning Daniel he.set mind to deliver him and until the.goings.in of the.sun he.was striving to rescue him

*JPS 1917:* Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc_5d0_5b5_5e9_5c1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc_5d0_5b5_5e9_5c1/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).