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title: בָּעָה — inquire · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בָּעָה (1158), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: inquire. BDB 1906: vb. inquire, cause to swell boil up. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בָּעָה

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«בָּעָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **inquire** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 1158 · **BDB:** בָּעָה

### Glosses

enquire (1); they.will.be.searched.out (1); you (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

inquire [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1158/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. inquire, cause to swell boil up [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1158/#m2)

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**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).

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בָּעָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1158/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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!

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

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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.'

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