Strong's Lexicon

H1158

H1158 — בָּעָה

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewba`ahverb-stemOccurrences: 5TWOT: 259

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H1158
Word:	בָּעָה
Part of Speech:	verb-stem
Etymology:	a primitive root
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	5
Transliteration:	ba`ah
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	baw-aw'
Meaning:	1. to gush over 2. to swell 3. (figuratively) to desire earnestly 4. (by implication) to ask
KJV Renderings:	cause, inquire, seek up, swell out.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB1207

[בָּעָה] verb inquire, cause to swell or boil up (Late Hebrew id; Arabic [untranscribed source text 646] seek, suppurate, swell; Aramaic בְּעָא, [untranscribed source text 647] seek) —

Qal Imperfect 3 feminine singular תִּבְעֶה Isa 64:1 2 masculine plural תִּבְעָיוּן Isa 21:12 Imperative בְּעָיוּ Isa 21:12 —

1. of rising desire, seek, inquire, absolute, of inquiring of prophet Isa 21:12 (twice in verse).

2. cause to boil up, אֵֿשׁ ׳ מַיִם תִּב Isa 64:1 (but gloss Che).

Niph`al Perfect נִבְעוּ Obad 1:6 searched out (|| נֶחְפְּשׂוּ); Participle נִבְעֶה Isa 30:13 swelling, swelling out (of decaying wall; Di swelling, enlarging, of crack in wall).

BDB9381

בְּעָא verb ask, seek, only Daniel (Biblical Hebrew בעה (rare)); —

Pe`al Perfect 3 masculine singular ׳ ב Dan 2:16; Dan 2:49 3 masculine plural בְּעוֺ Dan 2:13 1 plural בְּעֵ֫ינָא Dan 2:23 Imperfect 3 masculine singular יִבְעֵא Dan 6:8; Dan 6:13 1 singular אֶבְעֵאֿ Dan 7:16 Infinitive לְמִבְעֵא Dan 2:18 Participle בָּעֵא Dan 6:12; Dan 6:14, plural בָּעַ֫יִן v.Dan 6:5 —

1. ask, request, with מִן person Dan 2:16 (object clause with דִּי ), Dan 2:49; Dan 7:16 (+ accusative of thing); ask of God Dan 2:23 (+ id. ), of God or man Dan 6:8 (+ accusative of cognate meaning with verb), v.Dan 6:13 with מִןקֳֿדָם of God Dan 2:18 (accusative of thing); = pray, ׳ וּמִתְחַנֵּקֳדָם א ׳ ב Dan 6:12, ׳ ב v.Dan 6:14.

2. seek, accusative of person Dan 2:13, accusative of thing Dan 6:5.

Pa`el Imperfect 3 masculine plural יְבַעוֺן (K^{§
47, 3}); M^{on the passage} conjecture יִבְעוֺן) Dan 4:33 resort (for favours) to, ל person

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

בְּעָה (bah-zah’)

Concordance entry

EHCC: Entry present in source; no clean verse row could be parsed.