בָּרָא

ba.ra · to create

Hebrew · Strong's H1254 · Verb · Sounds like: baw-raw' · 55 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • to create H1254A 53
  • to fatten H1254B 2

Strong's dictionary

a primitive root; (absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes); choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
בָּרָא 53 vb. shape, create
Qal Pf.—shape, fashion, create
Niph.—Pass.
1. be created
2. with reference to birth
3. of something new, astonishing
Pi.
1. cut down
2. cut out
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
[בָּרָא] vb. be fat—Hiph. 1 S 2:29 to make yourself fat.

Every occurrence

  1. 1 Samuel 2:29 לְהַבְרִֽיאֲכֶ֗ם le.hav.ri.'a.Khem · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honorest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?

American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.

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