bashal (to boil) · Rightly

Meaning

To boil, cook, bake, roast, ripen, grow ripe(Qal) · (Piel) · (Pual) · (Hiphil)

How it's translated

you will boil 3
boil 2
they will boil 2
they ripened 1
being boiled 1
you must boil 1
and you will boil 1
it will be boiled 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Exodus 5
Ezekiel 3
Leviticus 2
Deuteronomy 2
1 Samuel 2
2 Kings 2

14 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Genesis 40:10And in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:
Exodus 12:9Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
Exodus 16:23And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
Exodus 23:19The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
Exodus 29:31And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe his flesh in the holy place.
Exodus 34:26The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.

All 24 verses, by book

Genesis 1: 40:10
Exodus 5: 12:9 16:23 23:19 29:31 34:26
Leviticus 2: 6:28 8:31
Numbers 1: 11:8
Deuteronomy 2: 14:21 16:7
1 Samuel 2: 2:13 2:15
2 Samuel 1: 13:8
1 Kings 1: 19:21
2 Kings 2: 4:38 6:29
2 Chronicles 1: 35:13
Lamentations 1: 4:10
Ezekiel 3: 24:5 46:20 46:24
Joel 1: 3:13
Zechariah 1: 14:21

Hebrew dictionary

בָּשַׁל bashal · to boil

1) to boil, cook, bake, roast, ripen, grow ripe 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to boil, cook 1a2) to grow ripe, ripen 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to boil 1b2) to cook 1c) (Pual) 1c1) to be boiled 1c2) to be sodden 1d) (Hiphil) 1d1) to ripen 1d2) ripen, brought to ripeness

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “boil” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

BOIL, verb intransitive

[Latin bullio, bulla, a bubble.]

To swell, heave, or be agitated by the action of heat; to bubble; to rise in bubbles; as, the water boils.
To be agitated by any other cause than heat; as, the boiling waves which roll and foam.
To be hot or fervid; to swell by native heat, vigor or irritation; as the boiling blood of youth; his blood boils with anger.
To be in boiling water; to suffer boiling heat in water or other liquid, for cookery or other purpose.

All definitions and other forms of “boil”

To bubble; to effervesce; as a mixture of acid and alkali.

BOIL, verb transitive

To dress or cook in boiling water; to seethe; to extract the juice or quality of any thing by boiling.

To prepare for some use in boiling liquor; as, to boil silk, thread or cloth.

BOIL, noun

A tumor upon the flesh, accompanied with soreness and inflammation; a sore angry swelling.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.