Strong's Definition
a primitive root; to clarify (i.e. brighten), examine, select
KJV Usage: make bright, choice, chosen, cleanse (be clean), clearly, polished, (shew self) pure(-ify), purge (out)
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
בָּרַר (ba.rar) — to purify. 1) to purify, select, polish, choose, purge, cleanse or make bright, test or prove 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to purge, purge out, purify 1a2) to choose, select 1a3) to cleanse, make shining, polish 1a4) to test, prove 1b) (Niphal) to purify oneself 1c) (Piel) to purify 1d) (Hiphil) 1d1) to purify 1d2) to polish arrows 1e) (Hithpael) 1e1) to purify oneself 1e2) to show oneself pure, just, kind
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · בַּר · בֹּר · בֹּרִית · בָּרוּר
Know | verb qal
to test = action by which someone carefully examines a group of objects in order to determine whether they meet certain criteria
Dissociate | verb qal
to select, to purge, selected, choice = causative action by which someone carefully examines a group of objects in order to determine whether they meet certain criteria, by which all that do not meet those criteria will be removed
Clean | verb nif
to purify oneself = action by which humans carefully examine themselves in order to determine whether they are ceremonially clean and do whatever is needed to achieve to become clean
Clean | verb hif, verb qal
Collocation: זרה
to cleanse, to polish = causative action by which humans carefully examine an object in order to determine whether it is clean and do whatever is needed to make sure that it is clean
Innocent | verb nif, verb hit | ≈ לבן · צרף
to purify oneself = action by which someone carefully examines oneself in order to evaluate one's behavior and make improvements where necessary
Innocent | verb hit | ≠ פתל · תפל
to act with purity = action by which someone does what is right to someone else
Innocent | verb pi | ≈ לבן · צרף
to make pure = causative action by which a deity causes humans to carefully examine themselves in order to evaluate their behavior and make improvements where necessary
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[בָּרַר] vb. purify, select Qal purge out, purify
choose, select, only Pt. and in Chronicler
cleanse, make shining, polish
test, prove
Niph. purify oneself
Pi. purify
Hiph. purify, cleanse
polish arrows
Hithp. purify oneself
shew oneself pure, just, kind
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