Word meanings
Strong's dictionary
a primitive root; to clarify (i.e. brighten), examine, select; make bright, choice, chosen, cleanse (be clean), clearly, polished, (shew self) pure(-ify), purge (out).
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
[בָּרַר] vb. purify, select
Qal
1. purge out, purify
2. choose, select, only Pt. and in Chronicler
3. cleanse, make shining, polish
4. test, prove
Niph. purify oneself
Pi. purify
Hiph.
1. purify, cleanse
2. polish arrows
Hithp.
1. purify oneself
2. shew oneself pure, just, kind
Every occurrence
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Ecclesiastes 3:18 לְבָרָ֖ם le.va.Ram · The “to do” form of an action: simple action
I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts.
American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.