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# בָּעָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1158

**inquire** — used 3 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/1489/1158/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּעָה: vb. inquire, cause to swell boil up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1158/#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, lists its Strong's number (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: enquire (1); they will be searched out (1); you (1).

## In the verses

[Obadiah 1:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/OBA.1.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/OBA.1.6/#tree)

אֵ֚יךְ נֶחְפְּשׂ֣וּ עֵשָׂ֔ו נִבְע֖וּ מַצְפֻּנָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* how! they.will.be.plundered Esau they.will.be.searched.out treasures its.hidden

*JPS 1917:* How is Esau searched out! How are his hidden places sought out!

[Isaiah 21:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.21.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.21.12/#tree)

אָמַ֣ר שֹׁמֵ֔ר אָתָ֥ה בֹ֖קֶר וְגַם־לָ֑יְלָה אִם־תִּבְעָי֥וּן בְּעָ֖יוּ שֻׁ֥בוּ אֵתָֽיוּ׃ס

*Word for word:* he.says \[the\].watchman it.will.come morning and also night if you will.enquire enquire return come

*JPS 1917:* The watchman said: 'The morning cometh, and also the night — if ye will inquire, inquire ye; return, come.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1158.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1158/): 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).