בָּאַשׁ baash

Hebrew word for “to stink” · Strong’s H887 · used 17 times in 16 verses

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Meaning

1) to have a bad smell, stink, smell bad;

How it is translated

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

• stank 4
• will stink 2
• had made themselves odious 2
• making odious 1
• have made stink 1
• has made itself odious 1
• certainly 1
• has become odious 1
• have made yourself odious 1
• stink 1
• acts odiously 1
• causes to stink 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Exodus 7 (2), Exodus 16 (2), Genesis 34 (1), Exodus 5 (1), Exodus 8 (1), 1 Samuel 13 (1), 1 Samuel 27 (1), 2 Samuel 10 (1), 2 Samuel 16 (1), 1 Chronicles 19 (1)

Forms

• ויבאשׁ 2
• הבאישׁ 2
• יבאישׁ 2
• להבאישׁני 1
• הבאשׁתם 1
• ובאשׁ 1
• ותבאשׁ 1
• נבאשׁ 1
• הבאשׁ 1
• נבאשׁו 1

Words used with it

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

• דָּגָה dagah “fish” 3
• צוֹבָא tsova “Zobah” 2
• שָׂכַר sakhar “to hire” 2
• מַעֲכָה maakhah “Maacah” 2
• יְאֹר yeor “Nile” 2
• מִן־ min “from” 4
• מִצְרִי mitsri “Egyptian” 2
• מַי mayim “water” 3
• עַמּוֹן ammon “Ammon” 2
• מוּת mut “to die” 3
• אֲרָם aram “Syria” 2
• נוּחַ nuach “to rest” 2

Key verses

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

• Genesis 34:30 — 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…
• Exodus 5:21 — 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…
• Exodus 16:20 — 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.
• 1 Samuel 13:4 — 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…
• 1 Samuel 27:12 — And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever.
• 2 Samuel 10:6 — And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba,…
• 2 Samuel 16:21 — 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…
• 1 Chronicles 19:6 — 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…
• Psalms 38:5 — My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
• Proverbs 13:5 — A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
• Ecclesiastes 10:1 — 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.
• Isaiah 50:2 — 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…

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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.