to boil
ba.shal most often describes preparing food in liquid heat, with one occurrence describing grape clusters reaching ripeness.
The attested usage chiefly concerns preparing flesh, stew, offerings, manna, or other food in pots or with water, including commands, reports, and passive descriptions of food so prepared. Genesis 40:10 instead describes vine clusters reaching ripeness into grapes.
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Preparing food in liquid heat · dominant
Piel forms occur in instructions and reports of food preparation: in 2 Kings 4:38, the imperative directs a youth to prepare stew in a great pot, while Exodus 16:23 gives plural imperfect forms beside baking instructions for what is to be prepared. Numbers 11:8 reports that the gathered food was prepared in a pot, and 2 Chronicles 35:13 distinguishes holy portions prepared in pots, caldrons, and pans from the Passover roasted in fire.
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Reaching ripeness · rare
In Genesis 40:10, the Hiphil perfect plural form has the vine's clusters as its setting; the APB renders the clause that the clusters “ripened into grapes.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the cooking passages, the APB commonly uses “boil” or “boiled,” including food in water or vessels; it also contrasts this preparation with roasting in Exodus 12:9 and 2 Chronicles 35:13. In Genesis 40:10 it renders the vine-cluster clause “ripened into grapes”; these are verse-level renderings rather than definitions.