בָּאַשׁ (bāʾaš) is
a Hebrew verb
meaning have a bad smell. It appears
18 times
in 9 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H887).
Also rendered
to stink
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 195)
Range of meaning (TWOT 195)have a bad smell, stink; make oneself odious, become odious; emit a stinking odour, cause to stink; smell, be offensive; be abhorred
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's
בָּאַשׁverb: have a bad smell, stink
Qalstink
Niphalonly figuratively make oneself odious, become odious
Hiphil
1.emit a stinking odour
2.cause to stink
Strong's H887בָּאַשׁ: to smell bad; figuratively, to be offensive morally KJV:(make to) be abhorred (had in abomination, loathsome, odious), (cause a, make to) stink(-ing savour), × utterly.
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.