בָּרַר

ba.rar · to purify

Hebrew · Strong's H1305 · Verb · Sounds like: baw-rar' · 18 occurrences

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

  1. Nehemiah 5:18 בְּרֻר֤וֹת be.ru.Rot · An -ing word: simple action, it is done to the subject

    Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this I demanded not the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.

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