בָּרוּת
bârûwth · H1267 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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food
Any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink in order to maintain life and growth, associated with special occasions such as mourning or sickness
ExamplesPsalm 69:21 They also gave me a bitter herb in my food, And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יmy 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 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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Near synonyms 3 words
- מַאֲכָל maʼăkâl · H3978 · food
- Common Hebrew term for food or something edible; can denote meat or food generally, overlapping semantically with בָּרוּת as edible provisions
- אֹכֶל ʼôkel · H400 · food, provisions
- General Hebrew noun for food; broader than meat specifically but includes meat as a category of edible food
- בָּשָׂר bâsâr · H1320 · flesh, meat, body
- Primary Hebrew term for flesh; when used in dietary/food contexts refers to meat as food, closely synonymous with בָּרוּת
In the other Testament 2 words
- βρῶμα brōma · G1033 · food, solid food, meat
- Standard Greek term for food or meat; direct translation equivalent used in LXX and NT for edible food/flesh
- κρέας kréas · G2907 · meat
- Greek term specifically for flesh or meat as food; precise equivalent for meat in culinary/dietary contexts
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Food001003001003
- בָּרוּת denotes food, as in Psalm 69:22's imprecation "may their table before them become a snare" (לְבָרוּת, describing what is set for eating), naming sustenance provided at a table.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1267. baruth [בָּרוּת] noun feminine food; בְּבָרוּתִי Psa 69:22 in (or as) my food. II.…
[בָּרוּת] noun feminine food; בְּבָרוּתִי Psa 69:22 in (or as) my food.
II. ברה (compare Assyrian barû, bind, whence birîtu, fetter ZimBP 59, 82, & treaty, covenant DlK 7).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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