H1262 בָּרָה (bârâh) baw-raw'

Hebrew

Verb (Hebrew)

Quick Definition

to eat

Strong's Definition

to select; to feed; to render clear

Derivation: a primitive root; to select; also (as denominative from H1250 (בָּר)) to feed; also (as equivalent to H1305 (בָּרַר)) to render clear (Ecclesiastes 3:18)

KJV Usage: choose, (cause to) eat, manifest, (give) meat.

TWOT Reference: 281

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) to eat, consume

1a) (Qal) to eat

1b) (Piel) for eating, devouring

1c) (Hiphil) to cause to eat

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G1035 G1586 G2068 G4906 G5595

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

בָּרָה (ba.rah) — to eat. 1) to eat, consume 1a) (Qal) to eat 1b) (Piel) for eating, devouring 1c) (Hiphil) to cause to eat

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

ברה (H1262)

verb · בָּרוּת · בְּרֹות · בִּרְיָה

Ingest | verb qal, verb pi

to eat = action by which someone consumes food; ≈ associated with special occasions such as mourning or sickness

2SA 12:17 · 2SA 13:6 · 2SA 13:10

Ingest | verb hif

to give food = causative action by which someone causes someone else to consume food; ≈ associated with special occasions such as mourning or sickness

2SA 3:35 · 2SA 13:5

verb · בְּרִית

Dissociate | verb qal

to choose = action by which someone makes a selection from among a number of options

1SA 17:8

¹ 1SA 17:8 · 1KI 18:25 Some versions read בחר cf.

Enio R. Mueller

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

בָּרָה vb. eat Qal eat bread

Pi. for devouring

Hiph. cause to eat bread

base

Bible Occurrences (6)

17:8

3:35 13:5 13:6 13:10

4:10

1 Samuel 17:8

And [Goliath] stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, Why do you come out and array yourselves for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose one of your men and have him come down against me.

2 Samuel 3:35

Then all the people came and urged David to eat something while it was still day, but David took an oath, saying, May God punish... me, and ever so severely,... if I taste bread or anything else... before the sun sets!

2 Samuel 13:5

Jonadab told him, Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare [it] in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.

2 Samuel 13:6

So Amnon lay down and feigned illness. When the king came to see him, Amnon said -, Please let my sister... Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, so that I may eat from her hand.

2 Samuel 13:10

Then Amnon said to Tamar, Bring the food into the bedroom, so that I may eat it from your hand. Tamar took the cakes she had made and went to her brother Amnon’s bedroom.

Lamentations 4:10

The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.