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. 2 Samuel 12:17 בָרָ֥א va.Ra' · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And the elders of his house arose, and stood beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.

American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.

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