בָּשַׁל bashal

Hebrew word for “to boil” · Strong’s H1310 · used 28 times in 24 verses

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Meaning

1) to boil, cook, bake, roast, ripen, grow ripe;

How it is translated

Glosses given for bashal in context, with how often each is used:

• will boil 7
• boiled 4
• cooked 4
• boil 2
• ripened 1
• being boiled 1
• must boil 1
• will be boiled 1
• will cook 1
• when boiled 1
• cook 1
• have boiled 1

Where it is used

Also in 2 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

1 Samuel 2 (2), Ezekiel 46 (2), Genesis 40 (1), Exodus 12 (1), Exodus 16 (1), Exodus 23 (1), Exodus 29 (1), Exodus 34 (1), Leviticus 6 (1), Leviticus 8 (1)

Forms

• בשׁלו 5
• תבשׁל 4
• מבשׁל 2
• ובשׁלת 2
• ובשׁלו 2
• יבשׁלו 2
• הבשׁילו 1
• תבשׁלו 1
• בשׁלה 1
• כבשׁל 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with bashal more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• בָּשָׂר basar “flesh” 5
• גְּדִי gedi “kid” 3
• אָכַל akhal “to eat” 6
• זָבַח zavach “to sacrifice” 4
• סִיר sir “pot” 3
• לָקַח laqach “to take” 6
• חָלָב chalav “milk” 3
• בִּכּוּרִים bikkur “firstfruit” 2
• מִלֻּא millu “setting” 2
• אֵם em “mother” 3
• נַעַר naar “youth” 3
• אָפָה aphah “to bake” 2

Key verses

The verses using bashal that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 16:23 — And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and…
• Exodus 23:19 — The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
• Exodus 34:26 — The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
• Leviticus 8:31 — And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and there eat it with the bread that is in the…
• Deuteronomy 14:21 — Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto…
• 1 Samuel 2:13 — And the priests’ custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest’s servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook…
• 1 Kings 19:21 — And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and…
• 2 Kings 4:38 — And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on…
• Lamentations 4:10 — The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
• Ezekiel 46:20 — Then said he unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meat offering; that…
• Joel 3:13 — Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
• Zechariah 14:21 — Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein:…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.