ba.shel describes food prepared by cooking, whether contrasted with raw meat or naming a prepared sacrificial portion.

The two verses use the term for food prepared by cooking: Exodus 12:9 contrasts it with raw meat and specifies roasting by fire, while Numbers 6:19 identifies a prepared shoulder of the ram.

1. Food prepared by cooking · dominant

   In Exodus 12:9, the masculine singular absolute form occurs in the prohibition against eating the meat raw or boiled in water; the APB renders the clause with “roasted with fire.” In Numbers 6:19, the feminine singular absolute form modifies the ram’s shoulder taken by the priest; the APB calls it “the cooked shoulder of the ram.”

   Exodus 12:9Numbers 6:19

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the preparation explicitly as “roasted with fire” in Exodus 12:9 and as “the cooked shoulder of the ram” in Numbers 6:19. These phrases confirm the verses’ food-preparation context rather than isolate every nuance of the term.