# בָּאַשׁ (baash)

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

Strong’s H887. 17 Old Testament occurrences.

to smell bad; figuratively, to be offensive morally

King James renderings: (make to) be abhorred (had in abomination, loathsome, odious), (cause a, make to) stink(-ing savour), [idiom] utterly.

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/baash-h887

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 34:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Exodus 5:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 t…
- [Exodus 7:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/7/18) — 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.
- [Exodus 7:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/7/21) — 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 bl…
- [Exodus 8:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/8/14) — And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.
- [Exodus 16:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 w…
- [Exodus 16:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/16/24) — And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.
- [1 Samuel 13:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 Philisti…
- [1 Samuel 27:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 Bethrehob, and the Syr…
- [2 Samuel 16:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [1 Chronicles 19:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 o…
- [Psalms 38:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/38/5) — My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
- [Proverbs 13:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/13/5) — A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
- [Ecclesiastes 10:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 wisdo…
- [Isaiah 30:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/30/5) — They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
- [Isaiah 50:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 h…