בָּעָה bâʻâh — to gush over, i.e. to swell
Translated in the KJV as cause, inquire, seek up, swell out.
a primitive root; to gush over, i.e. to swell; (figuratively) to desire earnestly; by implication to ask.
bâʻâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Imperative 1
The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
Niph'al
Participle (active) 1Perfect (qatal) 1
Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›