International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Boil (2)

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Boil (2)


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(verb) (בּשׁל, bāshal, רתח, rāthaḥ): “Boil” is the translation of bāshal, “to bubble up,” “to boil,” “to be cooked,” Piēl, “to cause to boil,” “to cook” (; ; ; , bis); of rāthaḥ, to be hot,” “to boil,” “to be made to boil,” “to be greatly moved” under strong emotion (the bowels), Hiphil “to cause to boil” ( the King James Version “My bowels boiled, and rested not,” the English Revised Version “My bowels boil.” the American Standard Revised Version “My heart is troubled”; , “He maketh the deep to boil like a pot”; , “make it boil well”); of bā‛āh, “to bubble” or “well up” ( (1, in Hebrew) “The fire causeth the waters to boil”); in King James Version, margin of (“My heart is inditing a good matter”) we have Hebrew “boileth” or “bubbleth up” (rāḥash, “to boil” or “bubble up,” the Revised Version (British and American) text, “My heart overfloweth with a goodly matter”).

“Boiling-places,” occurs in as the translation of mebhashshelōth, “hearths,” “boiling-places.” The American Standard Revised Version has “boiling-houses” for “places of them that boil” (), “boil well” for “consume” (); the American Standard Revised Version has “boiling over” for “unstable” (; the English Revised Version, margin “bubbling over”).