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. Joshua 17:15 וּבֵרֵאתָ֤ u.ve.re.Ta · An action: strong action, and then it will happen, done by you

    And Joshua said unto them, If thou be a great people, get thee up to the forest, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill-country of Ephraim is too narrow for thee.

  2. Joshua 17:18 וּבֵ֣רֵאת֔וֹ u.Ve.re.To · An action: strong action, and then it will happen, done by you

    but the hill-country shall be thine; for though it is a forest, thou shalt cut it down, and the goings out thereof shall be thine; for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.

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