בַּעְשָׁא
Baasha
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H1201 appears — 26 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Kings 20 verses
- 1 Kings 15:16 בַּעְשָׁ֥א n Proper There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
- 1 Kings 15:17 בַּעְשָׁ֤א n Proper Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
- 1 Kings 15:19 בַּעְשָׁ֣א n Proper [There is] a league between me and you, between my father and your father: behold, I have sent to you a present of silver and gold; go, break your league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
- 1 Kings 15:21 בַּעְשָׁ֔א n Proper It happened, when Baasha heard of it, that he left off building Ramah, and lived in Tirzah.
- 1 Kings 15:22 בַּעְשָׁ֑א n Proper Then king Asa made a proclamation to all Judah; none was exempted: and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber of it, with which Baasha had built; and king Asa built therewith Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
- 1 Kings 15:27 בַּעְשָׁ֤א בַעְשָׁ֔א n Proper n Proper Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha struck him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon.
- 1 Kings 15:28 בַעְשָׁ֔א n Proper Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha kill him, and reigned in his place.
- 1 Kings 15:32 בַּעְשָׁ֥א n Proper There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
- 1 Kings 15:33 בַּעְשָׁ֨א n Proper In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, [and reigned] twenty-four years.
- 1 Kings 16:1 בַּעְשָׁ֖א n Proper The word of Yahweh came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
- 1 Kings 16:3 בַעְשָׁ֖א n Proper behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house; and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
- 1 Kings 16:4 לְ/בַעְשָׁא֙ prep + n Proper Him who dies of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him who dies of his in the field shall the birds of the sky eat.
- 1 Kings 16:5 בַעְשָׁ֛א n Proper Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
- 1 Kings 16:6 בַּעְשָׁא֙ n Proper Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah; and Elah his son reigned in his place.
- 1 Kings 16:7 בַּעְשָׁ֨א n Proper Moreover by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of Yahweh against Baasha, and against his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he struck him.
- 1 Kings 16:8 בַּעְשָׁ֧א n Proper In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, [and reigned] two years.
- 1 Kings 16:11 בַּעְשָׁ֔א n Proper It happened, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he struck all the house of Baasha: he didn't leave him a single man-child, neither of his relatives, nor of his friends.
- 1 Kings 16:12 בַּעְשָׁ֑א בַּעְשָׁ֔א n Proper n Proper Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,
- 1 Kings 16:13 בַּעְשָׁ֔א n Proper for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned, and with which they made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.
- 1 Kings 21:22 בַּעְשָׁ֣א n Proper and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah for the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger, and have made Israel to sin.
2 Kings 1 verse
2 Chronicles 4 verses
- 2 Chronicles 16:1 בַּעְשָׁ֤א n Proper In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 16:3 בַּעְשָׁא֙ n Proper [There is] a league between me and you, as [there was] between my father and your father: behold, I have sent you silver and gold; go, break your league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
- 2 Chronicles 16:5 בַּעְשָׁ֔א n Proper It happened, when Baasha heard of it, that he left off building Ramah, and let his work cease.
- 2 Chronicles 16:6 בַּעְשָׁ֑א n Proper Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber of it, with which Baasha had built; and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.
Jeremiah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“Baasha” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name בעשא (Baʻshâʼ). More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in 1 Kings. It appears 26 verses across 4 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its moderately common vocabulary. First canonically at 1 Kings 15:16, it enters the text early. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1201 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 26
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 26 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,190
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,190 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 26 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Kings 20 verses 77%
- 2 Chronicles 4 verses 15%
- 2 Kings 1 verse 4%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 26 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 22 verses · 85%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 4 verses · 15%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Baasha 18×, Against baasha 3×, Came to pass when baasha 2×
- American Standard Version: Baasha 17×, Against baasha 3×, Came to pass 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Baasha 27×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Baasha 27×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1201 across 28 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1201 across 28 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1201 across 28 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1201 across 27 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Baasha = "wicked"
- third king of the northern kingdom of Israel and the founder of its second dynasty having killed the second king, Nadab
Word origin
n.pr.m. a king of Israel 1 K 15:16, 17, 19 + 18 times 1 K 15–16 + 21:22 2 K 9:9 2 Ch 16:1, 3, 5, 6 Je 41:9.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root meaning to stink
Forms in the corpus
The 13 distinct written forms H1201 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בַּעְשָׁ֔א | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 15:21 | 5 |
| בַּעְשָׁ֑א | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 15:22 | 3 |
| בַּעְשָׁ֣א | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 15:19 | 3 |
| בַּעְשָׁ֤א | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 15:17 | 3 |
| בַּעְשָׁ֥א | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 15:16 | 3 |
| בַעְשָׁ֔א | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 15:27 | 2 |
| בַּעְשָׁ֨א | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 15:33 | 2 |
| בַּעְשָׁא֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 16:6 | 2 |
| בַעְשָׁ֖א | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 16:3 | 1 |
| בַעְשָׁ֛א | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 16:5 | 1 |
| בַּעְשָׁ֖א | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 16:1 | 1 |
| בַּעְשָׁ֧א | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 16:8 | 1 |
| לְ/בַעְשָׁא֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 16:4 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Baasha). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Bravery, the third king of the separate kingdom of Israel, and founder of its second dynasty (1 Kings 15; 16; 2 Chr. 16:1-6). He was the son of Ahijah of the tribe of Issachar. The city of Tirzah he made the capital of his kingdom, and there he was buried, after an eventful reign of twenty-four years (1 Kings 15:33). On account of his idolatries his family was exterminated, according to the word of the prophet Jehu (1 Kings 16:3, 4, 10-13).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(wicked), B.C. 953-931, third sovereign of the separate kingdom of Israel, and the founder of its second dynasty. He was son of Ahijah of the tribe of Issachar and conspired against King Nadab, (1 Kings 15:27) and killed him with his whole family. He appears to have been of humble origin. (1 Kings 16:2) It was probably in the 13th year of his reign that he made war on Asa, and began to fortify Ramah. He was defeated by the unexpected alliance of Asa with Ben-hadad I. of Damascus. Baasha died in the 24th year of his reign, and was buried in Tirzah, (Song of Solomon 6:4) which he had made his capital. (1 Kings 16:6; 2 Chronicles 16:1-6)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
he that seeks, or lays waste
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 25 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 26 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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