Baash means “loathsome” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G887 — achlys (“mist”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H887 בָּאַשׁ (ba'ash) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. ba'ash (baw-ash') v. 1. to smell bad 2. (figuratively) to be offensive morally It has 16 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include abhorred, had, me, loathsome, and cause. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
ba'ash (baw-ash') v. 1. to smell bad 2. (figuratively) to be offensive morally [a primitive root] KJV: (make to) be abhorred (had in abomination, loathsome, odious), (cause a, make to) stink(-ing savour), X utterly.
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to stink
Usage: 1) to have a bad smell, stink, smell bad 1a) (Qal) to stink, smell bad 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to become odious 1b2) to make oneself odious 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to stink, emit a stinking odour 1c2) to cause to stink 1c3) of wickedness (fig.) 1d) (Hithpael) to make oneself odious 2) (TWOT) to abhor
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ba'ash, 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.
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16 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
And they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.
And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river.
First 16 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H887.
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
And they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.
And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river.
And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.
Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.
And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel also was had in abomination with the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal.
And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever.
And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ishtob twelve thousand men.
And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father's concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong.
And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Syriamaachah, and out of Zobah.
My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.
Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
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Baash (Strong's H887) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "loathsome". ba'ash (baw-ash') v. 1. to smell bad 2. (figuratively) to be offensive morally
This page currently indexes 16 linked usages for Strong's H887 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H887 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as abhorred, had, me, loathsome, cause, and make. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.