H887 בָּאַשׁ
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 17 KJV occurrences
בָּאַשׁ
bâʼash · baw-ash'
Definition
to smell bad; figuratively, to be offensive morally
KJV Renderings
(make to) be abhorred (had in abomination, loathsome, odious), (cause a, make to) stink(-ing savour), [idiom] utterly.
Derivation / Etymology
a primitive root;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 17)
- Genesis 34:30And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
- Exodus 7:18And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river.
- Exodus 8:14And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.
- Exodus 16:24And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.
- 1 Samuel 27:12And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever.
- 2 Samuel 10:6¶ And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ish-tob twelve thousand men.
- 1 Chronicles 19:6¶ And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Syria-maachah, and out of Zobah.
- Proverbs 13:5A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.