H1158
בָּעָה
to enquire
1) to seek out, swell, cause to swell, boil up, enquire 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to seek, enquire 1a2) to cause to boil up 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be searched out 1b2) to be swelling, bulging, swelling out
Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry
[בָּעָה] verb inquire, cause to swell or boil up (Late Hebrew id; Arabic seek, suppurate, swell; Aramaic בְּעָא, seek) —
Qal Imperfect 3 feminine singular תִּבְעֶה Isa 64:1 2 masculine plural תִּבְעָיוּן Isa 21:12 Imperative בְּעָיוּ Isa 21:12 —
a. of rising desire, seek, inquire, absolute, of inquiring of prophet Isa 21:12 (twice in verse).
a. of rising desire, seek, inquire, absolute, of inquiring of prophet Isa 21:12 (twice in verse).
2. cause to boil up, אֵֿשׁ׳מַיִם תִּב Isa 64:1 (but gloss Che). Niph`al Perfect נִבְעוּ Obad 1:6 searched out (|| נֶחְפְּשׂוּ); Participle נִבְעֶה Isa 30:13 swelling, swelling out (of decaying wall; Di swelling, enlarging, of crack in wall).
בְּעָא verb ask, seek, only Daniel (Biblical Hebrew בעה (rare)); —
Pe`al Perfect 3 masculine singular ׳ב Dan 2:16; Dan 2:49 3 masculine plural בְּעוֺ vDan 2:13 1 plural בְּעֵ֫ינָא vDan 2:23 Imperfect 3 masculine singular יִבְעֵא Dan 6:8; Dan 6:13 1 singular אֶבְעֵאֿ Dan 7:16 Infinitive לְמִבְעֵא Dan 2:18 Participle בָּעֵא Dan 6:12; Dan 6:14, plural בָּעַ֫יִן v.Dan 6:5 —
1. ask, request, with מִן person Dan 2:16 (object clause with דִּי), vDan 2:49; Dan 7:16 (+ accusative of thing); ask of God Dan 2:23 (+ id.), of God or man Dan 6:8 (+ accusative of congnate meaning with verb), v.Dan 6:13 with מִןקֳֿדָם of God Dan 2:18 (accusative of thing); = pray, ׳וּמִתְחַנֵּקֳדָם א ׳ב Dan 6:12, ׳ב v.Dan 6:14.
2. seek, accusative of person Dan 2:13, accusative of thing Dan 6:5. Pa`el Imperfect 3 masculine plural יְבַעוֺן (K§ 47, 3); Mon the passage conjecture יִבְעוֺן) Dan 4:33 resort (for favours) to, ל person
3 occurrences
Isaiah (2), Obadiah (1)