H1158 בָּעָה
bâʻâh — to gush over, i.e. to swell; (figuratively) to desire earnestly; by implication to ask
KJV: cause, inquire, seek up, swell out.
Occurs 5 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [בָּעָה] vb. inquire, cause to swell or boil up
- Qal
- 1 of rising desire, seek, inquire
- 2 cause to boil up
- Niph. searched out; swelling, swelling out
Where it occurs
- Isaiah 21:12 — The watchman said, “The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again.”
- Isaiah 30:13 — therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes…
- Isaiah 64:1 — as when fire kindles the brushwood, and the fire causes the water to boil. Make your name known to your adversaries…
- Obadiah 1:6 — How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!