# H887 בָּאַשׁ

בָּאַשׁ (bâʼash), Strong’s H887: to smell bad; figuratively, to be offensive morally KJV: (make to) be abhorred (had in abomination, loathsome, odious), (cause a, make to)…. Occurs 18 times.

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*bâʼash* — to smell bad; figuratively, to be offensive morally

KJV: (make to) be abhorred (had in abomination, loathsome, odious), (cause a, make to)…

Occurs 18 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- בָּאַשׁ vb. have a bad smell, stink
- Qal stink
- Niph. only fig. make oneself odious, become odious
- Hiph.
- 1 emit a stinking odour
- 2 cause to stink
- Hithp. they had made thmselves odious

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 34:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/34?v=30) — Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the…
- [Exodus 5:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=21) — They said to them, “May the LORD look at you and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of…
- [Exodus 7:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/7?v=18) — The fish that are in the river will die and the river will become foul. The Egyptians will loathe to drink water from…
- [Exodus 7:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/7?v=21) — The fish that were in the river died. The river became foul. The Egyptians couldn’t drink water from the river. The…
- [Exodus 8:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/8?v=10) — They gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.
- [Exodus 16:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/16?v=20) — Notwithstanding they didn’t listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, so it bred worms and became…
- [Exodus 16:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/16?v=24) — They laid it up until the morning, as Moses ordered, and it didn’t become foul, and there were no worms in it.
- [1 Samuel 13:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/13?v=4) — All Israel heard that Saul had struck the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel was considered an…
- [1 Samuel 27:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/27?v=12) — Achish believed David, saying, “He has made his people Israel utterly to abhor him. Therefore he will be my servant…
- [2 Samuel 10:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/10?v=6) — When the children of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians…