Word

בָּאַשׁ

bâʼash · H887 · Hebrew · 17 occurrences

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Meanings

to become foul, to stink

Process by which objects such as dead animals, plants, or wounds give off a foul odor; considered repulsive

Examples
Exodus 7:18 “Then the fish that are in the Nile will die, the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will no longer be able to drink water from the Nile.”’”
Ecclesiastes 10:1 Dead flies turn a perfumer’s oil rancid, so a little foolishness is more potent than wisdom and honor.
Exodus 7:21 Then the fish that were in the Nile died, and the Nile stank, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. And the blood was through all the land of Egypt.
to become repulsive

Process by which humans become repulsive or loathsome to someone else as a result of antagonistic actions, resulting in enmity between the parties involved

Examples
1 Samuel 13:4 And all Israel heard the news that Saul had attacked the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel had become repulsive to the Philistines. Then the people were summoned to Saul at Gilgal.
Genesis 34:30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me repulsive among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and since my men are few in number, they will band together against me and attack me, and I will be destroyed, I and my household!”
2 Samuel 10:6 Now when the sons of Ammon saw that they had become repulsive to David, the sons of Ammon sent messengers and hired the Arameans of Beth-rehob and the Arameans of Zobah, twenty thousand foot soldiers, and the king of Maacah with a thousand men, and the men of Tob with twelve thousand men.
to spoil someone's smell, meaning their reputation

Literally to cause someone's odor to smell bad in the eyes of another, hence humans make other humans repulsive or loathsome to someone else through antagonistic actions, resulting in enmity

Examples
Exodus 5:21 And they said to them, “May the LORD look upon you and judge you, because you have made us repulsive in Pharaoh’s sight and in the sight of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us!”

How it’s used In 6 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

16 occurrences in 11 groups

Not stated: they 3
Not stated: he, she or it 3
Other words · 9 groups that occur once or twice (10) 10

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

רֵיחַaroma, fragrance 1
נִיme 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

6 occurrences in 6 groups

מִןfrom+ אַיִןthere is no, not 1
עִםwith+ דָּוִדDavid 1
אֵתwith+ אָבfather 1
בin/on/with+ דָּוִדDavid 1
בin/on/with+ פְּלִשְׁתִּיPhilistine 1
לto/for+ נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1

With adverbsAdverbs

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לֹאnot 1

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 2 groups

רָאָהto see 2
שָׁמַעto hear, to listen, to obey 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לto/for 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

תַּעָב taʻâb · H8581 · to abhor, to act abominably: Both lexemes denote causing or being abhorrent/detestable, with תַּעָב (taʻâb, H8581) focused on moral/cultic abomination and בָּאַשׁ (bâʼash, H887) grounded in "stink" (smell-based disgust extending metaphorically to moral loathing). These are near-synonyms in the "abhor/detest" semantic space.

Semantic domains 3 entries

Smell002004001007: בָּאַשׁ denotes a literal foul odor, as at Exodus 7:18 — "the Nile will stink" — and Exodus 16:20, where leftover manna "bred worms and stank."
Hate002001002014: The word also carries a figurative sense of becoming odious or repulsive to another party, as at Genesis 34:30 — "You have brought trouble on me by making me repulsive among the inhabitants of the land" — and 1 Samuel 27:12 — "he has undoubtedly made himself repulsive among his people Israel."
Grieve002001002013: This entry carries no independent "Grieve" sense of its own; every tagged occurrence is either the literal stink sense or the closely related odious/repulsive sense already covered above, never a distinct sense of grief or sorrow as such.

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

בָּאַשׁbâʼash · H887בִּאוּשׁ biʼûwsh · H873 · bad · 1×בְּאֵשׁ bᵉʼêsh · H888 · displease · 1×

Topical studies with this word 3 entries

Grieve0 occurrences Hate9 occurrences Smell8 occurrences

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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0