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Boil (2)

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

(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" (Leviticus 8:31; 1 Kings 19:21; 2 Kings 6:29; Ezekiel 46:20 , Ezekiel 46:24 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" (Job 30:27 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"; Job 41:31 , "He maketh the deep to boil like a pot"; Ezekiel 24:5 , "make it boil well"); of bā‛āh , "to bubble" or "well up" (Isaiah 64:2 (1, in Hebrew) "The fire causeth the waters to boil"); in King James Version, margin of Psalm 45:1 ("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 Ezekiel 46:23 as the translation of mebhashshelōth , "hearths," "boiling-places." The American Standard Revised Version has "boiling-houses" for "places of them that boil" (Ezekiel 46:24 ), "boil well" for "consume" (Ezekiel 24:10 ); the American Standard Revised Version has "boiling over" for "unstable" (Genesis 49:4; the English Revised Version, margin "bubbling over").