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title: בַּעְשָׁא — Baasha · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בַּעְשָׁא (1201), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 28 times: Baasha. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בַּעְשָׁא

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«בַּעְשָׁא» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Baasha** — 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:** 28 times · **Key:** 1201 · **BDB:** בַּעְשָׁא

### Glosses

Baasha (21); of.Baasha (7)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בַּעְשָׁא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1201/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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:

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

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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.

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