Strong’s H1158 · Hebrew
בָּעָה
bâʻâh · baw-aw'
Origin a primitive root;
Meaning to gush over, i.e. to swell; (figuratively) to desire earnestly; by implication to ask
In the King James Version cause, inquire, seek up, swell out.
In 4 verses of the King James Version
- Isaiah 21:12The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: return, come.
- Isaiah 30:13Therefore 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.
- Isaiah 64:2As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
- Obadiah 1:6How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.