- Original: בּעה - Transliteration: Ba`ah - Phonetic: baw-aw' - Definition: 1. to seek out, swell, cause to swell, boil up, enquire a. (Qal) 1. to seek, enquire 2. to cause to boil up b. (Niphal) 1. to be searched out 2. to be swelling, bulging, swelling out - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 259 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; to gush over that is to swell; (figuratively) to desire earnestly; by implication to ask: - cause inquire seek up swell out boil. Total KJV Occurrences: 5 • boil, 1 Isaiah 64:2 • inquire, 2 Isaiah 21:12(2) • out, 1 Isaiah 30:13 • up, 1 Obadiah 1:6