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בא

  • /ba/ Modern Israeli

Rhymes with -ɔ

Where it comes from

Compare Phoenician 𐤁𐤀 (bʾ), Arabic بَاءَ (bāʔa, “to return, come back”), Ge'ez ቦአ (boʾä, “to enter”).

verb בָּא · ba · יָבוֹא · לָבוֹא · בִּיאָה · בָּאתִי

  1. construction pa'al To come.
  2. colloquial, construction pa'al To want (Used in expressing an unintentional or spontaneous desire) בא לך לטייל קצת?
  3. construction pa'al let us/let's; used with the first-person-plural future-tense form of a verb to produce its cohortative. בוא נדבר על זה מחר.
  4. construction pa'al To enter, to go in. וְנָשָׂא אַהֲרֹן אֶת־שְׁמוֹת בְּנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵל בְּחֹשֶׁן הַמִּשְׁפָּט עַל־לִבּוֹ בְּבֹאוֹ אֶל־הַקֹּדֶשׁ לְזִכָּרֹן לִפְנֵי־יְהֹוָה תָּמִיד׃
  5. construction pa'al, euphemistic, figuratively to copulate, to have sex וַתֹּאמֶר הִנֵּה אֲמָתִי בִלְהָה בֹּא אֵלֶיהָ וְתֵלֵד עַל־בִּרְכַּי וְאִבָּנֶה גַם־אָנֹכִי מִמֶּנָּה׃

adjective בָּא · ba · בָּאָה · בָּאִים · בָּאוֹת

  1. Coming, next, upcoming. “Bashana Haba'a” (Ehud Manor, 1970): בשנה הבאה נשב על המרפסת ונספור ציפורים נודדות. bashaná haba'á neshév al hamirpéset v'nispór tziporím nod'dót. Next year we'll sit on the porch and count the migrating birds.

Opposite: קוֹדֵם

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adjective

Opposite: קוֹדֵם

In English

  • next following in a sequence
  • come to move nearer
  • set of a heavenly body: to disappear below the horizon
  • feel like have a desire for something, or to do something

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {בא},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/he/%D7%91%D7%90},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}