בָּרָה
bârâh · baw-raw'
to select; to feed; to render clear
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root; to select; also (as denominative from H1250 (בָּר)) to feed; also (as equivalent to H1305 (בָּרַר)) to render clear (Ecclesiastes 3:18)
to select; to feed; to render clear
- to select
- to feed
- to render clear
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: choose, (cause to) eat, manifest, (give) meat.
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
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the house, what is within › the head, the highest › to reveal, behold
The house, what is within of the head, the highest that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of בָּרָה 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
6 occurrences · 6 OT · 0 NT · 5 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- that i may eat2 · 25%
- choose1 · 13%
- to cause1 · 13%
- to eat1 · 13%
- not, neither did he eat1 · 13%
- and give1 · 13%
- they were their meat1 · 13%
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.