בָּרָה
bârâh · H1262 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences
Meanings
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to eat
Action by which someone consumes food; associated with special occasions such as mourning or sickness
Examples2 Samuel 12:17 The elders of his household stood beside him in order to help him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat food with them.
2 Samuel 13:6 So Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill; when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, “Please have my sister Tamar come and make me a couple of pastries 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 from your hand.” So Tamar took the pastries which she had made and brought them into the bedroom to her brother Amnon.
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to give food
Causative action by which someone causes someone else to consume food; associated with special occasions such as mourning or sickness
Examples2 Samuel 3:35 Then all the people came to provide food for David in his distress while it was still day; but David vowed, saying, “May God do so to me, and more so, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun goes down.”
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to choose
Action by which someone makes a selection from among a number of options
Examples1 Samuel 17:8 He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel and said to them, “Why do you come out to draw up in battle formation? Am I not the Philistine, and you the servants of Saul? Choose a man as your representative and have him come down to me.
How it’s used In 6 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
7 occurrences in 4 groups
- Not stated: I 2
- Not stated: he, she or it 2
- Not stated (infinitive) 2
- Not stated: you (more than one) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- דָּוִדDavid 1
- אִישׁman, person, each 1
- לֶחֶםbread, food 1
- נִיme 1
Second objectAs in “call him Lord”
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- לֶחֶםbread, food 2
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
5 occurrences in 4 groups
- מִןfrom+ יָדhand, power 2
- אֵתwith+ הֶםthem 1
- לto/for+ כֶםyou 1
- לto/for+ הֶםthem 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לֹאnot 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 2
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
- ἐσθίω esthíō · G2068 · to eat
- Greek ἐσθίω (esthíō, G2068) serves as the standard translation equivalent for the eating sense of Hebrew בָּרָה (bârâh, H1262), which carries multiple meanings including 'choose' and 'eat,' with the Greek term capturing specifically the literal consumption aspect that appears in the aligned contexts.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Ingest002001001025
- בָּרָה describes eating or providing food, as in 2 Samuel 3:35's account that "all the people came to provide food for David" (לְהַבְרוֹת), naming the act of nourishing someone.
- Dissociate002003002009
- The word also carries a sense of selecting or choosing apart from others, as in 1 Samuel 17:8's challenge "choose a man as your representative" (בְּרוּ־לָכֶם), naming the act of setting one person apart from the group.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Also from the root בָּרָה
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1262. barah I. בָּרָה verb eat (Assyrian barû & derivatives ZimBP 31) — Qal Perfect 2Sa…
I. בָּרָה verb eat (Assyrian barû & derivatives ZimBP 31) —
Qal Perfect 2Sa 12:17; Imperfect אֶבְרֶה 2Sa 13:6, 2Sa 13:10 eat bread (בְּרוּלְֿכֶם 1Sa 17:8 scribal error for לכם בחרו 1Ki 18:25 DrSm 107).
Pi`el Infinitive לְבָרוֺת Lam 4:10 for devouring.
Hiph`il Imperfect תַּבְרֵנִי 2Sa 13:5; Infinitive לְהַבְרוֺת 2Sa 3:35 cause to eat bread.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
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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