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. Numbers 16:30 יִבְרָ֣א yiv.Ra' · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    But if Jehovah make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then ye shall understand that these men have despised Jehovah.

American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.

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