Lexical Definition

‎בָּעָה‎ bâʻâh (baw-aw') to enquire ^H:V
a primitive root

cause, inquire, seek up, swell out.

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

1) to seek out, swell, cause to swell, boil up, enquire
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to seek, enquire
1a2) to cause to boil up
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be searched out
1b2) to be swelling, bulging, swelling out

See Greek: ζητέω · κατακαίω · καταλαμβάνω

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎בָּעָה‎] verb inquire, cause to swell or boil up (Late Hebrew id; Arabic seek, suppurate, swell; Aramaic ‎בְּעָא‎, seek) —

Qal Imperfect 3 feminine singular ‎תִּבְעֶה‎ Isa 64:1* 2 masculine plural ‎תִּבְעָיוּן‎ Isa 21:12 Imperative ‎בְּעָיוּ‎ Isa 21:12 —
a. of rising desire, seek, inquire, absolute, of inquiring of prophet Isa 21:12 (twice in verse).

2. cause to boil up, ‎אֵֿשׁ‎‎׳‎‎מַיִם תִּב‎ Isa 64:1* (but gloss Che). Niph`al Perfect ‎נִבְעוּ‎ Obad 1:6 searched out (|| ‎נֶחְפְּשׂוּ‎); Participle ‎נִבְעֶה‎ Isa 30:13 swelling, swelling out (of decaying wall; Di swelling, enlarging, of crack in wall).

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