בָּאַשׁbâʼash

Meanings

Same root

• בְּאֵשׁbᵉʼêsh · H888{to smell bad; figuratively, to be offensive morally}

Where it appears

Appears 17 times in the Bible.

• Genesis 34:30 Afterward Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have ruined me! You’ve made me stink among all the people of this land—among all the Canaanites and Perizzites. We are so few that they will join forces and crush us. I will be ruined, and my entire household will be wiped out!”
• Exodus 5:21 The foremen said to them, “May the Lord judge and punish you for making us stink before Pharaoh and his officials. You have put a sword into their hands, an excuse to kill us!”
• Exodus 7:18 The fish in it will die, and the river will stink. The Egyptians will not be able to drink any water from the Nile.’”
• Exodus 7:21 The fish in the river died, and the water became so foul that the Egyptians couldn’t drink it. There was blood everywhere throughout the land of Egypt.
• Exodus 8:14 The Egyptians piled them into great heaps, and a terrible stench filled the land.
• Exodus 16:20 But some of them didn’t listen and kept some of it until morning. But by then it was full of maggots and had a terrible smell. Moses was very angry with them.