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# בַּעְשָׁא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1201

**Baasha** — used 28 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

Baasha [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1201/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בַּעְשָׁא: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1201/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a king of Israel 1 K 15:16, 17, 19 + 18 times 1 K 15–16 + 21:22 2 K 9:9 2 Ch 16:1, 3, 5, 6 Je 41:9.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Baasha (21); of Baasha (7).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 16:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.16.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.16.1/#tree)

וַיְהִ֤י דְבַר־יְהוָה֙ אֶל־יֵה֣וּא בֶן־חֲנָ֔נִי עַל־בַּעְשָׁ֖א לֵאמֹֽר׃

*Word for word:* and it.came the.word of.Yahweh to Jehu the.son of.Hanani on Baasha (cmp)

*JPS 1917:* And the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasa, saying:

[1 Kings 15:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.15.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.15.16/#tree)

וּמִלְחָמָ֨ה הָיְתָ֜ה בֵּ֣ין אָסָ֗א וּבֵ֛ין בַּעְשָׁ֥א מֶֽלֶךְ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל כָּל־יְמֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and war it.was between Asa and between Baasha the.king of.Israel all days their

*JPS 1917:* And there was war between Asa and Baasa king of Israel all their days.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1201/): 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).