בָּר
bâr · H1250 · Hebrew · 14 occurrences
Meanings
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open field
Uncultivated, uninhabited land, where wild animals can live free
ExamplesJob 39:4 “Their offspring become strong, they grow up in the open field; They leave and do not return to them.
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grain
Collective: seeds of cultivated cereal; used as the main ingredient for bread and related food products; regarded as an essential condition for life
ExamplesGenesis 41:35 “Then have them collect all the food of these good years that are coming, and store up the grain for food in the cities under Pharaoh’s authority, and have them guard it.
Genesis 41:49 Joseph stored up grain in great abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure.
Genesis 42:3 So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רָבָהto increase 1
What is done to itIt is the object
7 occurrences in 6 groups
- צָבַרto heap up 2
- מָנַעto withhold 1
- נָשָׂאto lift up, to carry, to bear 1
- עָטַףto be faint 1
- פָּתַחto open 1
- שָׁבַרto break 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- בin/on/with 2
- אֵתwith 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- מַפָּלrefuse 1
- מַשְׂאֵתbearing 1
- פִּסָּהabundance 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- σῖτος sîtos · G4621 · grain, wheat
- Greek σῖτος renders Hebrew בָּר as the standard LXX translation equivalent for grain/wheat, maintaining the same agricultural semantic domain with essentially identical denotation.
Semantic domains 7 entries
- Relatives001001003012
- This Relatives code is inherited from the shared root listing with the homographic forms בַּר (bar, H1248) ("son") and בַּר (bar, H1249) ("pure"); the "grain" sense attested in Genesis 41:35 carries no independent kinship nuance.
- Stage002001001060
- This Stage code is likewise inherited from the shared root listing and is not an independent feature of the "grain" sense.
- Non-Contain002002001004
- This Non-Contain code is inherited from the shared root listing and is not an independent feature of the "grain" sense as attested in Genesis 41:35 or 41:49.
- Land001002002
- Land fits this entry directly (or nearly so): בָּר denotes grain as a produce of the land, as in Genesis 41:35's "store up the grain for food," tying the substance to agricultural yield.
- Good002001001031
- This Good code is inherited from the shared root listing with בַּר (bar, H1249)'s "pure" sense and is not an independent feature of the "grain" sense.
- Right002001003013
- This Right code is inherited from the shared root listing with בַּר (bar, H1249)'s "pure/righteous" sense and is not an independent feature of the "grain" sense.
- Crops001003001003002
- Crops fits this entry directly: בָּר denotes grain or wheat, as in Genesis 41:49's "Joseph stored up grain in great abundance," naming the harvested food crop itself.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1250. bar III. בַּר noun masculine grain, corn (compare Arabic wheat, grain of wheat),…
III. בַּר noun masculine grain, corn (compare Arabic wheat, grain of wheat), Psa 72:16; Amo 5:11; Amo 8:5-6, בָּר Gen 41:35, Gen 41:49; Gen 42:3, Gen 42:25; Gen 45:23 (E) Psalm 65:14; Pro 11:26; Jer 23:28; Joe 2:24.
בָּר noun masculine field (Biblical Aramaic בָּרָא, Syriac , Arabic open country, land) — בַבָּר יִרְבּוּ they grow up in the open field Job 39:4 (Aramaic usage).
ברר (√ of following; Biblical Hebrew בָּר ברר, Job 39:4).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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