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Lexicon :: Strong's H1254 - bārā'

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בָּרָא
Transliteration
bārā'
Pronunciation
baw-raw'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 278

Strong’s Definitions

בָּרָא bârâʼ, baw-raw'; a primitive root; (absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes):—choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 54x

The KJV translates Strong's H1254 in the following manner: create (42x), creator (3x), choose (2x), make (2x), cut down (2x), dispatch (1x), done (1x), make fat (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 54x
The KJV translates Strong's H1254 in the following manner: create (42x), creator (3x), choose (2x), make (2x), cut down (2x), dispatch (1x), done (1x), make fat (1x).

  1. to create, shape, form

    1. (Qal) to shape, fashion, create (always with God as subject)

      1. of heaven and earth

      2. of individual man

      3. of new conditions and circumstances

      4. of transformations

    2. (Niphal) to be created

      1. of heaven and earth

      2. of birth

      3. of something new

      4. of miracles

    3. (Piel)

      1. to cut down

      2. to cut out

  2. to be fat

    1. (Hiphil) to make yourselves fat

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
בָּרָא bârâʼ, baw-raw'; a primitive root; (absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes):—choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat).
STRONGS H1254: Abbreviations
† I. בָּרָא 53 verb shape, create (compare Arabic بَرِئَ probably loan-word, form, fashion by cutting, shape out, pare a reed for writing, a stick for an arrow, but also بَرِأَ, create; Phoenician הברא CISi. 347 incisor, a trade involving cutting; Assyrian barû, make, create, COTGloss & Hpt KAT2 Gloss 1 but dubious; Sabean ברא found, build, DHMZMG 1883, 413, synonym בנה; BaZA. 1888, 58, compare Assyrian banû, create, beget, with change of liquid; Aramaic בְּרָא, axrb, create) —
Qal Perfect Genesis 1:1 + 19 times; Imperfect יִבְרָא Genesis 1:21, 27; Numbers 16:30; Infinitive בְּראֹ Genesis 5:1; Imperative בְּרָא Psalm 51:12; Participle בּוֺרֵא Isaiah 42:5 + 10 times; suffix בֹּרַאֲךָ Isaiah 43:1; בּוֺרְאֶיךָ Ecclesiastes 12:1; — shape, fashion, create, always of divine activity, with accusative of thing, seldom except in P and Isa2.
1. object heaven and earth Genesis 1:1; Genesis 2:3 (P) Isaiah 45:18 (twice in verse); mankind Genesis 1:27 (3 times in verse); Genesis 5:1, 2(P) Genesis 6:7 (J) Deuteronomy 4:32; Psalm 89:48; Isaiah 45:12; the host of heaven Isaiah 40:26; heavens Isaiah 42:5; ends of the earth Isaiah 40:28; north and south Psalm 89:13; wind Amos 4:13; the תנינים Genesis 1:21 (P).
2. the individual man Malachi 2:10 (|| father) Ecclesiastes 12:1; the smith and the waster Isaiah 54:16 (twice in verse); Israel as a nation Isaiah 43:15; Jacob Isaiah 43:1; the seed of Israel Isaiah 43:7.
3. new conditions and circumstances: righteousness and salvation Isaiah 45:8; darkness and evil Isaiah 45:7; fruit of the lips Isaiah 57:19; a new thing חֲדָשָׁה (a woman encompassing a man) Jeremiah 31:22; בְּרִיאָה (swallowing up the Korahites) Numbers 16:30 (J); cloud and flame over Zion Isaiah 4:5.
4. of transformations: a clean heart Psalm 51:12 [Psalm 51:10] (|| חִדֵּשׁ); new heaven and earth Isaiah 65:17 (in place of old); transformation of nature Isaiah 41:20; with double accusative בורא ירושׁלם גילה transform Jerusalem into rejoicing Isaiah 65:18.
Niph. Perfect 2nd person feminine singular נִבְרֵאתְ Ezekiel 21:35; 3rd person plural נִבְרְאוּ Exodus 34:10 + 2 times; Imperfect יִבָּרֵא֑וּן Psalm 104:30; Infinitive suffix הִבָּרַאֲךָ Ezekiel 28:13; הִבָּֽרְאָךְ Ezekiel 28:15; הִבָּֽרְאָם Genesis 2:4; Genesis 5:2; Participle נִבְרָא Psalm 102:19; — Pass.
1. be created: heaven and earth Genesis 2:4 (P); creatures Psalm 104:30; mankind Genesis 5:2 (P); heavens Psalm 148:5.
2. with reference to birth: במקום אשׁר נבראת in the place where thou wast created (i.e. native land) Ezekiel 21:35; יום הבראך day when thou wast created (king of Tyre) Ezekiel 28:13, 15 (compare היום ילדתיך Psalm 2:7); עַם נִבְרָא Psalm 102:19 (|| עַם נוֺלָד Psalm 22:32).
3. of something new, astonishing: miracles Exodus 34:10 (J); new things, חדשׁות Isaiah 48:6.
Pi. Perfect בֵּרֵאתָ Joshua 17:15; בֵּרֵאתוֺ Joshua 17:18; Infinitive absolute בָּרֵא Ezekiel 21:24 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 23:47; —
1. cut down: a forest Joshua 17:15, 18 (J); וּבָרֵא אוֺתְהֶן בְּחַרְבוֺתָם Ezekiel 23:47.
2. cut out: יָד hand, as an index Ezekiel 21:24 (twice in verse).

† II. [בָּרָא] verb be fat (Arabic بَرِئَ be free of a thing, sound, healthy; see מרא) —
Hiph. Infinitive לְהַבְרִיאֲכֶם 1 Samuel 2:29 to make yourselves fat.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:1; 1:1; 1:21; 1:21; 1:27; 1:27; 2:3; 2:4; 2:4; 5:1; 5:1; 5:2; 5:2; 5:2; 6:7

Exodus

34:10; 34:10

Numbers

16:30; 16:30

Deuteronomy

4:32

Joshua

17:15; 17:15; 17:18; 17:18

1 Samuel

2:29

Psalms

2:7; 51:10; 51:12; 89:13; 89:48; 102:19; 102:19; 104:30; 104:30; 148:5

Ecclesiastes

12:1; 12:1

Isaiah

4:5; 40:26; 40:28; 41:20; 42:5; 42:5; 43:1; 43:1; 43:7; 43:15; 45:7; 45:8; 45:12; 45:18; 48:6; 54:16; 57:19; 65:17; 65:18

Jeremiah

31:22

Ezekiel

21:24; 21:24; 23:47; 23:47; 28:13; 28:13; 28:15; 28:15

Amos

4:13

Malachi

2:10

H1254

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Strong's Number H1254 matches the Hebrew בָּרָא (bārā'),
which occurs 54 times in 46 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:1 - In the beginning God created the heavens and the eretz.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:21 - God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:27 - God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:3 - God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:4 - This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the eretz when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made eretz and the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:1 - This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God's likeness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:2 - He created them male and female, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:7 - The LORD said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:10 - He said, "Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the eretz, nor in any nation; and all the people among which you are shall see the work of the LORD; for it is an awesome thing that I do with you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:30 - But if the LORD make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down alive into She'ol; then you shall understand that these men have despised the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:32

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:32 - For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the eretz, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been any such thing as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:15 - Yehoshua said to them, If you are a great people, go up to the forest, and cut down for yourself there in the land of the Perizzi and of the Refa'im; since the hill-country of Efrayim is too narrow for you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:18 - but the hill-country shall be yours; for though it is a forest, you shall cut it down, and the goings out of it shall be your; for you shall drive out the Kana`anim, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:29 - Why kick you at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Yisra'el my people?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 51:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:10 - Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:12 - The north and the south, you have created them. Tavor and Hermon rejoice in your name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:47

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:47 - Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 102:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:18 - This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 104:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:30 - You send forth your Spirit: they are created. You renew the face of the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 148:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:5 - Let them praise the name of the LORD, For he commanded, and they were created.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:1 - Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, Before the evil days come, and the years draw near, When you will say, "I have no pleasure in them;"

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:5 - The LORD will create over the whole habitation of Mount Tziyon, and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:26 - Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their host by number; he calls them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:28

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:28 - Have you not known? have you not heard? The everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the eretz, doesn't faint, neither is weary; there is no searching of his understanding.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:20 - that they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD has done this, and the Holy One of Yisra'el has created it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:5 - Thus says God the LORD, he who created the heavens, and stretched them forth; he who spread abroad the eretz and that which comes out of it; he who gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to those who walk therein:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:1 - But now thus says the LORD who created you, Ya`akov, and he who formed you, Yisra'el: Don't be afraid, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name, you are mine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 43:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:7 - everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 43:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:15 - I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Yisra'el, your King.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:7 - I form the light, and create darkness; I make shalom, and create evil. I am the LORD, who does all these things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:8 - Distil, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the eretz open, that it may bring forth yeshu`ah, and let it cause righteousness to spring up together; I, the LORD, have created it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:12 - I have made the eretz, and created man on it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens; and all their host have I commanded.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:18 - For thus says the LORD who created the heavens, the God who formed the eretz and made it, who established it and didn't create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is no one else.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:7 - They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day you didn't hear them; lest you should say, Behold, I knew them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 54:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:16 - Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals, and brings forth a weapon for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 57:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:19 - I create the fruit of the lips: Shalom, shalom, to him who is far off and to him who is near, says the LORD; and I will heal him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 65:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:17 - For, behold, I create new heavens and a new eretz; and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:18 - But be you glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Yerushalayim a rejoicing, and her people a joy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:22 - How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? for the LORD has created a new thing in the eretz: a woman shall encompass a man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:19 - Also, you son of man, appoint two ways, that the sword of the king of Bavel may come; they both shall come forth out of one land: and mark out a place, mark it out at the head of the way to the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 21:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:30 - Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your birth, will I judge you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:47

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:47 - The company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 28:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:13 - You were in `Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: odem, pitdah, yahalom, tarshish, onx, yashefay, sappir, nofek, and bareket. Gold work of timbrels and of pipes was in you. In the day that you were created they were prepared.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:15 - You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:13 - For, behold, he who forms the mountains, And creates the wind, And declares to man what is his thought; Who makes the morning darkness, And treads on the high places of the Eretz: The LORD, the God Tzva'ot,, is his name."

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:10 - Don't we all have one father? Hasn't one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
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