Word

בְּאֹשׁ

bᵉʼôsh · H889 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

to become foul, to stink, stench

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

Examples
Isaiah 34:3 So their slain will be thrown out, And their corpses will give off their stench, And the mountains will be drenched with their blood.
Joel 2:20 “But I will remove the northern army far from you, And I will drive it into a dry and desolate land, Its advance guard into the eastern sea, And its rear guard into the western sea. And its stench will ascend and its odor of decay will come up, Because it has done great things.”
Amos 4:10 “I sent a plague among you as in Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses, And I made the stench of your camp rise up in your nostrils; Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the LORD.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

3 occurrences in 3 groups

מַחֲנֶהcamp, army 1
הוּhis 1
הֶםtheir 1

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 1 groups

עָלָהto go up 2

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

עָלָהto go up 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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Semantic domains 1 entry

Smell002004001007: בְּאֹשׁ names a stench, the foul odor of decay, as in Isaiah's description of the stench rising from the slain and Amos's image of the stench of a devastated camp.

Word family 6 words

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

בָּאַר bâʼar · H874 · to make clear · 3×בְּאֵר bᵉʼêr · H875 · well, watering place, spring · 37×בְּאֹשׁbᵉʼôsh · H889בְּאֻשִׁים bᵉʼushîym · H891 · rotten fruit, stinking weeds · 2×בׇּאְשָׁה boʼshâh · H890 · rotten fruit, stinking weeds · 1×בֹּאר bôʼr · H877 · pit, cistern, dungeon · 0×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H889. beosh בְּאשׁ noun masculine stench — ׳בּ construct Amo 4:10; suffix בָּאְשׁוֺ Joe…

H889. beosh
בְּאשׁ noun masculine stench — ׳בּ construct Amo 4:10; suffix בָּאְשׁוֺ Joe 2:20; בָּאְשָׁם Isa 34:3; — ׳בּ מַחֲנֵיכֶם, i.e. stench of corpses Amo 4:10, also Isa 34:3; compare Joe 2:20 of locusts בּ ׳עָלָה || צַחֲנָתוֺׅ (תַּעַל.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Smell3 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