To ask
בְּעָאStrong’s H1158bea (be-a)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bea is the Hebrew word usually translated “enquire”, “bulging” and “it boils”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.”
Meaning
- To ask, seek, request, desire, pray, make petition(P'al)
How it's translated
- you will enquire 1
- enquire 1
- bulging 1
- it boils 1
- they will be searched out 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 3
- Obadiah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 30:13Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
- Isaiah 64:2As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
- Obadiah 1:6How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!
Hebrew dictionary
בְּעָא bea · to ask
1) to ask, seek, request, desire, pray, make petition 1a) (P'al) 1a1) to ask, request 1a2) to seek (for favour)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ask” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
'ASK, verb transitive
[Gr. In former times, the English word was pronounced ax, as in the royal style of assenting to bills in Parliament. 'Be it as it is axed.']
- To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; with of before the person to whom the request is made.
- To require, expect or claim.“To whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more” Luke 12:48
- To interrogate, or inquire; to put a question, with a view to an answer.“He is of age, ask him” John 9:21
- To require, or make claim.“Ask me never so much dowry” Genesis 34:12
All definitions and other forms of “ask”
- To claim, require or demand, as the price or value of a commodity; to set a price; as, what price do you ask?
- To require, as physically necessary.
- To invite; as, to ask guests to a wedding or entertainment; ask my friend to step into the house.
'ASK, verb intransitive
- To request or petition, followed by for; as, ask for bread; or without for.“Ask and it shall be given you” Matthew 7:7
- to inquire, or seek by request; sometimes followed by after.“Wherefore dost thou ask after my name?” Genesis 32:29
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.