בָּרָא
bârâʼ · baw-raw'
(absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
(absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes)
- (absolutely) to create
- (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat).
Letters
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the house, what is within › the head, the highest › strength, the leader
The house, what is within of the head, the highest of strength, the leader.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of בָּרָא above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
55 occurrences · 55 OT · 0 NT · 53 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- created10 · 24%
- when they were created2 · 5%
- they are created2 · 5%
- the creator2 · 5%
- hath created2 · 5%
- that created2 · 5%
- and create2 · 5%
- for, behold, i create2 · 5%
- that thou wast created2 · 5%
- whom i have created1 · 2%
- such as have not been done1 · 2%
- make1 · 2%
- country, and cut down1 · 2%
- and thou shalt cut it down1 · 2%
- above me, to make yourselves fat1 · 2%
- create1 · 2%
- thou hast created1 · 2%
- my time is: wherefore hast thou made1 · 2%
- which shall be created1 · 2%
- and they were created1 · 2%
- now thy creator1 · 2%
- will create1 · 2%
- who hath created1 · 2%
- he that created1 · 2%
- for i have created1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.