בָּשַׁל
ba.shal (H1310)
to boil
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# Biblical Analysis of בָּשַׁל (bashal) The Hebrew word *bashal* carries the primary meaning "to boil" and appears 28 times throughout the biblical text. This frequency suggests the term held sufficient practical importance in ancient Israelite life to warrant regular mention in scripture. The definition points to a specific cooking process—the application of heat to liquid or food in liquid—rather than a general term for food preparation, indicating that biblical writers distinguished this particular method from other culinary techniques. The consistent translation as "to boil" across biblical occurrences suggests the word maintained a stable semantic range focused on this single cooking method. This narrow, concrete meaning reflects the vocabulary of a pre-industrial society where specific food preparation techniques were important enough to name distinctly. The prevalence of *bashal* in the biblical corpus indicates that boiling was a recognized and notable practice in ancient Israel, whether for preparing food, rendering substances, or fulfilling ritual requirements. Without access to the specific biblical passages where *bashal* appears, the full range of its contextual applications remains limited by the data provided. However, the straightforward definition and moderate frequency suggest the word functioned as a practical descriptor of a common domestic or culinary process rather than as a term carrying metaphorical or theological significance.
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and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters produced ripe grapes.
Don’t eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.
He said to them, “This is that which Yahweh has spoken, ‘Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake that which you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.’ ”
You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground into the house of Yahweh your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
“You shall take the ram of consecration and boil its meat in a holy place.
“You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of Yahweh your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken; and if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it shall be scoured, and rinsed in water.
Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, “Boil the meat at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’
The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. Its taste was like the taste of fresh oil.
You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself. You may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
You shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God chooses. In the morning you shall return to your tents.
The custom of the priests with the people was that when anyone offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant came while the meat was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand;
Yes, before they burned the fat, the priest’s servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, “Give meat to roast for the priest; for he will not accept boiled meat from you, but raw.”
So Tamar went to her brother Amnon’s house; and he was lying down. She took dough, and kneaded it, made cakes in his sight, and baked the cakes.
He returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled their meat with the instruments of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and served him.
Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, “Get the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”
So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him;’ and she has hidden her son.”
They roasted the Passover with fire according to the ordinance. They boiled the holy offerings in pots, in cauldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the children of the people.
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Take the choice of the flock, and also a pile of wood for the bones under the cauldron. Make it boil well. Yes, let its bones be boiled within it.”
He said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the meal offering; that they not bring them out into the outer court, to sanctify the people.”
Then he said to me, “These are the boiling houses, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.”
Put in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread, for the wine press is full, the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.”
Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to Yahweh of Armies; and all those who sacrifice will come and take of them, and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of Yahweh of Armies.