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title: בְּאֵשׁ — be evil · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: בְּאֵשׁ (lemma:בְּאֵשׁ), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 1 times: be evil. BDB 1906: vb. be evil, bad. With 1 verse in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בְּאֵשׁ

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«בְּאֵשׁ» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **be evil** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** lemma:בְּאֵשׁ · **BDB:** בְּאֵשׁ

### Glosses

it.was.displeasing (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc_5d0_5b5_5e9_5c1/#m3)

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בְּאֵשׁ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b0_5bc_5d0_5b5_5e9_5c1/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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