Baah means “gush over” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G1158 — daniel in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H1158 בָּעָה (ba`ah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. ba`ah (baw-aw') v. 1. to gush over 2. to swell It has 4 linked Bible usages across 2 books. Visible English usage signals include swelling and out. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
ba`ah (baw-aw') v. 1. to gush over 2. to swell 3. (figuratively) to desire earnestly 4. (by implication) to ask [a primitive root] KJV: cause, inquire, seek up, swell out.
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H1158. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to enquire
Usage: 1) to seek out, swell, cause to swell, boil up, enquire 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to seek, enquire 1a2) to cause to boil up 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be searched out 1b2) to be swelling, bulging, swelling out
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ba`ah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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4 indexed usages in Old Testament.
The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.
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.
As 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!
First 4 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1158.
The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.
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.
As 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!
How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1158, grouped by book.
Baah (Strong's H1158) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "gush over". ba`ah (baw-aw') v. 1. to gush over 2. to swell
This page currently indexes 4 linked usages for Strong's H1158 across 2 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1158 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as swelling and out. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.