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title: בָּעָה — inquire · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בָּעָה (lemma:בָּעָה), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 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:** 2 times · **Key:** lemma:בָּעָה · **BDB:** בָּעָה

### Glosses

a.bulging (1); it.boils (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

inquire [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b8_5bc_5e2_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. inquire, cause to swell boil up [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b8_5bc_5e2_5b8_5d4/#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 (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/lemma_3a_5d1_5b8_5bc_5e2_5b8_5d4/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 64:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.64.1/)

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כִּקְדֹ֧חַ אֵ֣שׁ הֲמָסִ֗ים מַ֚יִם תִּבְעֶה־אֵ֔שׁ לְהוֹדִ֥יעַ שִׁמְךָ֖ לְצָרֶ֑יךָ מִפָּנֶ֖יךָ גּוֹיִ֥ם יִרְגָּֽזוּ׃

*Word for word:* as kindles fire brushwood(s) water it.boils fire to make.known name your to foes your from before you nations they.will.quake

*JPS 1917:* As when fire kindleth the brush-wood, and the fire causeth the waters to boil; to make Thy name known to Thine adversaries, that the nations might tremble at Thy presence,

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[Isaiah 30:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.13/)

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לָכֵ֗ן יִֽהְיֶ֤ה לָכֶם֙ הֶעָוֺ֣ן הַזֶּ֔ה כְּפֶ֣רֶץ נֹפֵ֔ל נִבְעֶ֖ה בְּחוֹמָ֣ה נִשְׂגָּבָ֑ה אֲשֶׁר־פִּתְאֹ֥ם לְפֶ֖תַע יָב֥וֹא שִׁבְרָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* therefore it.will.become for you the iniquity (the) this like a.breach \[which.is\].about.to.fall a.bulging in a.wall high which suddenly to suddenness it.will.come breaking its

*JPS 1917:* Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.

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