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title: בׇּאְשָׁה — stinking weeds · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בׇּאְשָׁה (890), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: stinking weeds. BDB 1906: n.f. stinking noxious weeds. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בׇּאְשָׁה

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«בׇּאְשָׁה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **stinking weeds** — 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:** 890 · **BDB:** בָּאְשָׁה

### Glosses

foul.weed\[s\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

stinking weeds [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/890/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. stinking noxious weeds [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/890/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. (stinking things) stinking or noxious weeds, Jb 31:40 תַּחַת חִטָּה יֵצֵא חוֹחַ וְתַחַת־שְׂעֹרָה בָאְשָׁה instead of wheat may there spring forth bramble, and instead of barley stinking weeds (cf. Assyrian bîšu Zehnpfund BAS I. 633).

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בׇּאְשָׁה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/890/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 31:40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.40/)

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תַּ֤חַת חִטָּ֨ה ׀ יֵ֥צֵא ח֗וֹחַ וְתַֽחַת־שְׂעֹרָ֥ה בָאְשָׁ֑ה תַּ֝֗מּוּ דִּבְרֵ֥י אִיּֽוֹב׃פ

*Word for word:* in.place.of wheat let.it.come.forth thornbush\[es\] and in.place.of barley foul.weed\[s\] they.are.finished the.words of.Job

*JPS 1917:* Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and noisome weeds instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

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