בָּעָה (bāʿâ) is
a Hebrew verb
meaning inquire. It appears
5 times
in 2 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H1158).
Also rendered
to enquire
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 259)
Range of meaning (TWOT 259)inquire, cause to swell, boil up; seek, cause to boil up; searched out, swelling, swelling out; gush, swell, desire, ask; cause, seek up, swell out
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's
בָּעָהverb: inquire, cause to swell, boil up
Qal
1.of rising desire, seek, inquire
2.cause to boil up
Niphalsearched out; swelling, swelling out
Strong's H1158בָּעָה: to gush over, i.e. to swell; (figuratively) to desire earnestly; by implication to ask KJV:cause, inquire, seek up, swell out.
Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.