בְּאֵשׁ
bᵉʼêsh · H888 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to be sad, to be upset
State in which humans experience distress over something
ExamplesDaniel 6:14 Then, as soon as the king heard this statement, he was deeply distressed, and set his mind on rescuing Daniel; and until sunset he kept exerting himself to save him.
How it’s used In 2 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated (participle) 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against+ וֹhim 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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Contrasting words 2 words
- יָטַב yâṭab · H3190 · to tend, to adorn, to improve
- יָטַב expresses the positive evaluation 'be pleasing/good' in contrast to בְּאֵשׁ 'displease.' Both verbs describe evaluative reactions, but in opposite directions. The construction בְּעֵינֵי with יָטַב ('be pleasing in the eyes of') is the natural lexical opposite of בְּאֵשׁ in contexts of personal judgment.
- רָצָה râtsâh · H7521 · to be acceptable, to accept, to take pleasure
- רָצָה denotes acceptance or favorable disposition, semantically opposite to בְּאֵשׁ 'displease.' While רָצָה often carries a nuance of divine or formal acceptance, it still functions as a lexical antonym expressing the opposite evaluative stance.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Smell002004001007
- This code is inherited from the shared root's literal sense of becoming foul or stinking, not independently attested by בְּאֵשׁ (bᵉʼêsh, H888)'s own single citation, which is a figurative distress.
- Hate002001002014
- This code is inherited from the shared root's sense of becoming repulsive, not independently attested by בְּאֵשׁ (bᵉʼêsh, H888)'s own single citation, which describes distress rather than repulsion.
- Grieve002001002013
- בְּאֵשׁ describes being greatly distressed or displeased, as the king who was deeply troubled and set his mind on rescuing Daniel (Daniel 6:14).
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H888. beesh בְּאֵשׁ verb be evil, bad (so ᵑ7; Syriac ; Old Aramaic באש Lzb238 SAC27…
בְּאֵשׁ verb be evil, bad (so ᵑ7; Syriac ; Old Aramaic באש Lzb238 SAC27 Cooke191; compare Biblical Hebrew); —
Pe`al Perfect3masculine singular impersonal ׳ב עֲלוֺהִי Dan 6:15 i.e. it was evil (displeasing) to him (compare Biblical Hebrew [רעע] 1).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
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
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