בְּעָא bᵉʻâʼ — to seek or ask
Translated in the KJV as ask, desire, make, pray, request, seek.
(Aramaic) or בְּעָה; (Aramaic), corresponding to H1158; to seek or ask.
bᵉʻâʼ in each stem
Pe'al
Perfect (qatal) 4Participle (active) 3Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Infinitive construct 1
And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain.
Then Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would give him time, and that he would shew the king the interpretation.
That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
Pa'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.
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 ›