הבאיש

Causative of בָּאַשׁ (ba'ásh, “to stink”). The intransitive sense comes from instead applying causativity to the noun באוש / בְּאֹשׁ (b'osh, “stench”), i.e. "produce stench".

Among the Semitic peoples smell is often figuratively linked to one's disposition or moral state; having a repulsive odor indicates an evil character, which is why Jacob tells his sons in Genesis 34 that they have caused him and his household to stench among the surrounding peoples after they had sacked Shechem, and this is even more directly expressed by the elders of Israel towards Moses and Aaron in Exodus 5. In an analogous manner good smell was associated with positive qualities, see בָּשַׂם (basám, “to smell pleasantly”) and cognates in other languages.

• (Biblical Hebrew) IPA^(key): /hibˈʔiːʃ/
• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /(h)ivˈ(ʔ)iʃ/

הִבְאִישׁ • (hiv'ísh) (hif'il construction)

1. (transitive) to make foul-smelling, fetid
   • Tanach, Ecclesiastes 10:1a, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     זְבוּבֵי מָוֶת יַבְאִישׁ יַבִּיעַ שֶׁמֶן רוֹקֵחַ

     Dead flies turn the perfumer’s ointment fetid and putrid;

   1. (figuratively) to cause to be hated and despised
      • Tanach, Genesis 34:30a:

        וַיֹּאמֶר יַעֲקֹב אֶל־שִׁמְעוֹן וְאֶל־לֵוִי עֲכַרְתֶּם אֹתִי לְהַבְאִישֵׁנִי בְּיֹשֵׁב הָאָרֶץ בַּכְּנַעֲנִי וּבַפְּרִזִּי

        Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You are troubling me by making me despised among the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and Perizzites;..."

      • Tanach, Exodus 5:21:

        יֹּאמְרוּ אֲלֵהֶם יֵרֶא יְהֹוָה עֲלֵיכֶם וְיִשְׁפֹּט אֲשֶׁר הִבְאַשְׁתֶּם אֶת־רֵיחֵנוּ בְּעֵינֵי פַרְעֹה וּבְעֵינֵי עֲבָדָיו לָתֶת־חֶרֶב בְּיָדָם לְהׇרְגֵנוּ׃

        They said to them [Moses and Aaron], "May Hashem look upon you and judge you for making us detested [making our smell putrid] in the eyes of Pharao and his courtiers, so that he may put swords in their hands to slay us!

2. (intransitive) to stink
   • Tanach, Exodus 16:24:

     וַיַּנִּיחוּ אֹתוֹ עַד־הַבֹּקֶר כַּאֲשֶׁר צִוָּה מֹשֶׁה וְלֹא הִבְאִישׁ וְרִמָּה לֹא־הָיְתָה בּוֹ׃

     They put it at aside until morning as Moses had ordered, and it didn't smell foully and didn't have any maggots inside of it.

   1. (figuratively) to despise, act wickedly

• H887 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Klein, Ernest (1987), “באשׁ”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 62b
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903), A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature‎^[2], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 136a