# בָּעָה (baah)

Israeli respelling: ba-ah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H1158. 4 Old Testament occurrences.

to gush over, i.e. to swell; (figuratively) to desire earnestly; by implication to ask

King James renderings: cause, inquire, seek up, swell out.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/baah-h1158

## Occurrences

- [Isaiah 21:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/21/12) — The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.
- [Isaiah 30:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/30/13) — 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 instan…
- [Isaiah 64:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/64/2) — 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 tr…
- [Obadiah 1:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/obadiah/1/6) — How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!