Strong's Concordance
Original word: בָּעָה
Transliteration: baah
Definition (short): inquire
Definition (full): to gush over, to swell, to desire earnestly, to ask
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin: a prim. root
Definition: to inquire, cause to swell or boil up
NASB Translation: boil (1), bulge (1), inquire (2), searched (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
A primitive root; to gush over, i.e. To swell; (figuratively) to desire earnestly; by implication to ask -- cause, inquire, seek up, swell out.
References
KJV:
The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: return, come.
NASB:
The watchman says, "Morning comes but also night. If you would inquire, inquire; Come back again."
KJV:
Therefore 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.
NASB:
Therefore this iniquity will be to you Like a breach about to fall, A bulge in a high wall, Whose collapse comes suddenly in an instant,
KJV:
As 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!
NASB:
As fire kindles the brushwood, as fire causes water to boil-- To make Your name known to Your adversaries, That the nations may tremble at Your presence!