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# בָּעָה

Biblical Hebrew

**inquire** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

inquire [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b8_5bc_5e2_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּעָה: vb. inquire, cause to swell boil up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b8_5bc_5e2_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. inquire, cause to swell or boil up (NH id.; Arabic بَغَى seek, suppurate, swell; Aramaic בְּעָא, ܒܥܳܐ seek)— Impf. 3 fs. תִּבְעֶה Is 64:1; 2 mpl. תִּבְעָיוּן Is 21:12; Imv. בְּעָיוּ Is 21:12;— of rising desire, seek, inquire, abs., of inquiring of prophet Is 21:12(×2). cause to boil up, מַיִם תִּב׳־אֵשׁ Is 64:1 (but gloss Che). Pf. נִבְעוּ Ob 6 searched out (‖ נֶחְפְּשׂוּ); Pt. נִבְעֶה Is 30:13 swelling, swelling out (of decaying wall; Di swelling, enlarging, of crack in wall).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a bulging (1); it boils (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 64:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.64.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.64.1/#tree)

כִּקְדֹ֧חַ אֵ֣שׁ הֲמָסִ֗ים מַ֚יִם תִּבְעֶה־אֵ֔שׁ לְהוֹדִ֥יעַ שִׁמְךָ֖ לְצָרֶ֑יךָ מִפָּנֶ֖יךָ גּוֹיִ֥ם יִרְגָּֽזוּ׃

*Word for word:* as kindles fire brushwood(s) water it.boils fire to make.known name your to foes your from before you nations they.will.quake

*JPS 1917:* As when fire kindleth the brush-wood, and the fire causeth the waters to boil; to make Thy name known to Thine adversaries, that the nations might tremble at Thy presence,

[Isaiah 30:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.13/#tree)

לָכֵ֗ן יִֽהְיֶ֤ה לָכֶם֙ הֶעָוֺ֣ן הַזֶּ֔ה כְּפֶ֣רֶץ נֹפֵ֔ל נִבְעֶ֖ה בְּחוֹמָ֣ה נִשְׂגָּבָ֑ה אֲשֶׁר־פִּתְאֹ֥ם לְפֶ֖תַע יָב֥וֹא שִׁבְרָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* therefore it.will.become for you the iniquity (the) this like a.breach \[which.is\].about.to.fall a.bulging in a.wall high which suddenly to suddenness it.will.come breaking its

*JPS 1917:* Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d1_5b8_5bc_5e2_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b8_5bc_5e2_5b8_5d4/): 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).