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title: בָּאֻשׁ — stench · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בָּאֻשׁ (891), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: stench. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בָּאֻשׁ

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«בָּאֻשׁ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **stench** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 891

### Glosses

wild.grapes (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

stench [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/891/#m1)

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Why these entries: BDB: none; OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בָּאֻשׁ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/891/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 5:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.5.4/)

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מַה־לַּעֲשׂ֥וֹת עוֹד֙ לְכַרְמִ֔י וְלֹ֥א עָשִׂ֖יתִי בּ֑וֹ מַדּ֧וּעַ קִוֵּ֛יתִי לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת עֲנָבִ֖ים וַיַּ֥עַשׂ בְּאֻשִֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* what? \[is\].to do still for vineyard my and not I.have.done for it why? did.I.wait to produce grapes and did.it.produce wild.grapes

*JPS 1917:* What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

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[Isaiah 5:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.5.2/)

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וַֽיְעַזְּקֵ֣הוּ וַֽיְסַקְּלֵ֗הוּ וַיִּטָּעֵ֙הוּ֙ שֹׂרֵ֔ק וַיִּ֤בֶן מִגְדָּל֙ בְּתוֹכ֔וֹ וְגַם־יֶ֖קֶב חָצֵ֣ב בּ֑וֹ וַיְקַ֛ו לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת עֲנָבִ֖ים וַיַּ֥עַשׂ בְּאֻשִֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* and he dug.it and he cleared.it.of.stones and he planted.it a.choice.vine and he.built a.tower in the.middle of.it and also a.wine-vat he.dug.out in it and he.waited to produce grapes and it.produced wild.grapes

*JPS 1917:* And he digged it, and cleared it of stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a vat therein; and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

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