בָּשַׁל
bâshal · H1310 · Hebrew · 28 occurrences
Thing
Meanings
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to boil
Process by which food is getting ready for consumption by being immersed in boiling water for a prolonged period
Examples1 Samuel 2:13 And this was the custom of the priests with the people: when anyone was offering a sacrifice, the priest’s servant would come while the meat was cooking, with a three-pronged fork in his hand.
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to boil, to cook
Causative process by which humans prepare food for consumption by immersing it in boiling water for a prolonged period
ExamplesExodus 12:9 ‘Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather roasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with its entrails.
Exodus 16:23 then he said to them, “This is what the LORD meant: Tomorrow is a Sabbath observance, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. Bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over put aside to be kept until morning.”
Exodus 23:19 “You shall bring the choice first fruits of your soil into the house of the LORD your God. “You are not to boil a young goat in the milk of its mother.
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to roast
Literally: boiled in fire; hence: causative process by which humans prepare food for consumption by holding it close to the fire for a prolonged period
Examples2 Chronicles 35:13 So they roasted the Passover animals on the fire according to the ordinance, and they boiled the holy things in pots, in kettles, and in pans and carried them quickly to all the lay people.
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to ripen
Process by which fruits or grains grow to maturity, as a result of the heat of the sun, until they are ready to be harvested
ExamplesJoel 3:13 Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread the grapes, for the wine press is full; The vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.
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Process by which plants grow to maturity, as a result of the heat of the sun, and develop fruits or grains (to ripen (into fruits))
ExamplesGenesis 40:10 and on the vine were three branches. And as it was budding, its blossoms came out, and its clusters produced ripe grapes.
How it’s used In 7 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
26 occurrences in 12 groups
- Not stated: you (one person) 6
- Not stated: they 5
- Not stated: he, she or it 4
- Not stated: you (more than one) 3
- Other words · 8 groups that occur once or twice (8) 8
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
18 occurrences in 15 groups
- בָּשָׂרflesh 3
- גְּדִיyoung male goat 3
- Other words · 13 groups that occur once or twice (13) 13
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
14 occurrences in 11 groups
- בin/on/with+ חָלָבmilk 3
- Other words · 10 groups that occur once or twice (12) 12
With adverbsAdverbs
5 occurrences in 2 groups
- לֹאnot 3
- שָׁםthere 2
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בָּשַׁלto boil, to cook 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בַּיִתhouse, household 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- חָרַךְ chârak · H2760 · to be singed, to roast (meat, after a hunting party)
- חָרַךְ (chârak, H2760) occurs only once; its meaning "roast" is a near synonym for one sense of בָּשַׁל (bâshal, H1310) ("roast" among other cooking methods). Both are cooking verbs with an overlapping range.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Cooked002001001016
- בָּשַׁל denotes the cooking process of boiling or roasting food, as in the instructions for preparing the Passover lamb in Exodus 12:9 and the manna in Exodus 16:23.
- Stage002001001060
- The verb also describes produce ripening or maturing, as in the ripened grape clusters of Pharaoh's cupbearer's dream in Genesis 40:10.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1310. bashal בָּשַׁל verb boil, seethe (intransitive), grow ripe (Aramaic בְּשַׁל,…
בָּשַׁל verb boil, seethe (intransitive), grow ripe (Aramaic בְּשַׁל, ripen, Nas. boil, NSyriac be boiled, cooked, compare Assyrian bašâlu (bašlu, cooked) ZimBP 76) —
Qal Perfect בָּשַׁל Joel 1Sa 4:13, בָּֽשְׁלוּ Eze 24:5; — boil, cook (intransitive) Eze 24:5; grow ripe (of קציר) Joel 4:13; —
Pi`el Perfect3masculine singular suffix בִּשְּׁלָם 1Ki 19:21; וּבִשַּׁלְתָּ֫ Exo 29:31; Deu 16:7, בִּשְּׁלוּ Lam 4:10 Lam 4:2t., וּבִשְּׁלוּ consecutive Zec 14:21; Imperfect3feminine singular וַתְּבַשֵּׁל 2Sa 13:8; 2Sa 13:2masculine singular תְּבַשֵּׁל Exo 23:19 Exo 23:2t., יְבַשְּׁלוּ Eze 46:20, Eze 46:24, וַיְבַשְּׁלוּ2Ch 35:13, תְּבַשְּׁלוּ Exo 16:23, וַנְּבַשֵּׁל 2Ki 6:29; Imperative בַּשֵּׁל 2Ki 4:38, בַּשְּׁלוּ Lev 8:31, בַּשֵּׁ֑לוּ Exo 16:23; Infinitive בַּשֵּׁל 1Sa 2:13; Participle מְבַשְּׁלִים Eze 46:24; —
1 boil (transitive) object omitted Num 11:8, בָּשָׂר 1Sa 2:13; גְּדִי Exo 23:19; Exo 34:26; Deu 14:21; נזיד 2Ki 4:38; of offerings, object הקדשׁים2Ch 35:13; object אשׁם Eze 46:20, זבח Eze 46:24 (no object) Eze 46:24, compare Zec 14:21 (no object); Exo 16:23 (twice in verse) opposed to אפה bake.
2 cook (general), object בשׂר 1Ki 19:21; Exo 29:31; Lev 8:31 (both P); object בֵּן 2Ki 6:29 compare יֶלֶד Lam 4:10; hence also of הפסח Deu 16:7 (compare Di; || Exo 12:8-9, has אֵשׁ צְלִי opposed to בַּמַּיִם מְבֻשָּׁל) 2Ch 35:13 (בָּאֵשׁ), cakes (הלבבות) 2Sa 13:8.
Pu`al Perfect3feminine singular בֻּשָּׁ֑לָה Lev 6:21; Imperfect3feminine singular תְּכֻשַּׁלֿ Lev 6:21; Participle מְבֻשָּׁל Exo 12:9; 1Sa 2:15; — be boiled, sodden, במים Exo 12:9 compare Lev 6:21 (twice in verse) (all P) 1Sa 2:15.
Hiph`il Perfect הִבְשִׁילוּ ripened, brought to ripeness Gen 40:10 (a vine, its grape-clusters).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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