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H1254 בָּרָא (bârâʼ) baw-raw'
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

a primitive root; (absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes)

KJV Usage: choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat)

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

בָּרָא (ba.ra) — to create. 1) to create, shape, form 1a) (Qal) to shape, fashion, create (always with God as subject) 1a1) of heaven and earth 1a2) of individual man 1a3) of new conditions and circumstances 1a4) of transformations 1b) (Niphal) to be created 1b1) of heaven and earth 1b2) of birth 1b3) of something new 1b4) of miracles 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to cut down 1c2) to cut out

בָּרָא (ba.ra) — to fatten. 1) to be fat 1a) (Hiphil) to make yourselves fat

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

verb · בְּרִיאָה · בְּרָאיָה

Exist | verb qal, verb nif | ≈ יצר · עשׂה

to create = causative action by which a deity brings to existence something that did not exist before

GEN 1:1 · GEN 1:21 · GEN 1:27 · GEN 1:27 · GEN 1:27 · GEN 2:3 · GEN 2:4 · GEN 5:1 · GEN 5:2 · GEN 5:2 · GEN 6:7 · DEU 4:32 · PSA 51:12 · PSA 89:13 · PSA 89:48 · PSA 102:19 · PSA 104:30 · PSA 148:5 · ECC 12:1 · ISA 4:5 · ISA 40:26 · ISA 40:28 · ISA 41:20 · ISA 42:5 · ISA 43:1 · ISA 43:7 · ISA 43:15 · ISA 45:7 · ISA 45:12 · ISA 45:18 · ISA 45:18 · ISA 54:16 · ISA 54:16 · ISA 65:17 · ISA 65:18 · ISA 65:18 · EZK 21:35 · EZK 28:13 · EZK 28:15 · AMO 4:13 · MAL 2:10

Happen

to create (an event), to cause to happen = causative action by which a deity causes something to happen that did not happen before

EXO 34:10 · NUM 16:30 · ISA 45:7 · ISA 45:8 · ISA 48:7 · ISA 57:19 · JER 31:22

verb

Detach | verb pi

to clear (by cutting), to carve = causative action by which humans cause something else to get its desired shape by cutting off certain parts of it

JOS 17:15 · JOS 17:18 · EZK 21:24 · EZK 21:24

Dead | verb pi

to cut down literally: to cut; hence: = causative action by which humans kill other humans with the sword

EZK 23:47

verb · בָּרִיא

Fat | verb hif

to fatten oneself = causative action by which humans cause themselves to become fat by eating too much

1SA 2:29

Enio R. Mueller

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

בָּרָא 53 vb. shape, create Qal Pf.—shape, fashion, create

Niph.—Pass. be created

with reference to birth

of something new, astonishing

Pi. cut down

cut out

base

[בָּרָא] vb. be fat—Hiph. 1 S 2:29 to make yourself fat. ref

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