Strong's #1158: ba`ah (pronounced baw-aw')

a primitive root; to gush over, i.e. to swell; (figuratively) to desire earnestly; by implication to ask:--cause, inquire, seek up, swell out.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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bâ‛âh

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

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

 

Isaiah 21:12: "and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: return, come."
Isaiah 21:12: "the night: if inquire ye: return, come."
Isaiah 30:13: "shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out wall, whose breaking"
Isaiah 64:2: "burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name to thine adversaries, that the nations"
Obadiah 1:6: "are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!"