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Hebrew verb · H1197

בָּעַר

baarbaw-ar'

to burn: burn; be brutish; to burn: destroy; to burn: purge

94 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: bâʻar

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1197is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 20 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 75
    spellings
  • 4
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H1197

to kindle, i.e. consume

The King James renders it: be brutish, bring (put, take) away, burn, (cause to) eat (up), feed, heat, kindle, set (on fire), waste.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

baar is rendered "to burn: burn; be brutish; to burn: destroy; to burn: purge". It stands 94 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty books.

  • Seventeen of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists four meanings for it, beginning with "to burn: burn".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 3:2There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.
  • The Greek text spells it seventy-five different ways.

The first use

There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.

Exodus 3:2בֹּעֵ֣ר

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

What the word means

The word carries four meanings: to burn: burn, and be brutish, and to burn: destroy, and to burn: purge.

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
to burn: burnStrong's entry ATagged aslisted under the tableWhereExodus 3:2There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush…
be brutishStrong's entry BTagged aslisted under the tableWherein the ledger below
to burn: destroyStrong's entry ATagged aslisted under the tableWherein the ledger below
to burn: purgeStrong's entry ATagged aslisted under the tableWherein the ledger below

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • burning13
  • and you will remove10
  • and it burned5
  • and it will burn4
  • it burns3
  • they burned3
  • to burn3
  • and I will sweep away2
  • and they will kindle2
  • he is stupid2
  • I have removed2
  • it burned2

and 42 more, 94 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

בָּעַתbaathto terrifyUses16
בָּעָהbaahto enquireUses5
בָּעוּbaupetitionUses2
בָּעַטbaatto kickUses2

All 94, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

75 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • וּבִֽעַרְתָּ֥9
  • בֹּעֵ֣ר4
  • וַתִּבְעַר־3
  • בִּעֵ֖ר2
  • בָּעֲר֥וּ2
  • וּבָעֲרָה֙2
  • לְבָעֵ֔ר2
  • נִבְעַ֤ר2
  • תִבְעַר־2
  • בָּעֵ֑ר1
  • בֹעֵ֖ר1
  • בֹּעֵ֤ר1

and 63 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • Hc/Vpq2ms10Hc/Vpq2ms
  • verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular7HVqrmsa
  • preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)6HR/Vpcc
  • Hc/Vqw3fs5Hc/Vqw3fs
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular5HVqi3fs
  • Hc/Vqq3fs4Hc/Vqq3fs
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural4HVqp3cp
  • verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singular4HVqrfsa
  • Hc/Vhw3ms3Hc/Vhw3ms
  • Hc/Vpq1cs3Hc/Vpq1cs
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVqi3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular3HVqp3fs

Exodus

six uses
  • There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.

    Exodus 3:2

    • בֹּעֵ֣רboerverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: burning
  • So Moses thought, “I must go over and see this marvelous sight. Why is the bush not burning up?”

    Exodus 3:3

    • יִבְעַ֥רyivarverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: is it burning
  • If a man grazes his livestock in a field or vineyard and allows them to stray so that they graze in someone else’s field, he must make restitution from the best of his own field or vineyard.

    Exodus 22:5

    • יַבְעֶר־yaver-verb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will cause to be grazed over
    • וּבִעֵ֖רuvierHc/Vpq3mstagged: and it will graze
  • If a fire breaks out and spreads to thornbushes so that it consumes stacked or standing grain, or the whole field, the one who started the fire must make full restitution.

    Exodus 22:6

    • הַמַּבְעִ֖רhamavirthe definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: the kindled
  • Do not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.”

    Exodus 35:3

    • תְבַעֲר֣וּtevaaruverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you must kindle

Leviticus

one use
  • The fire on the altar shall be kept burning; it must not be extinguished. Every morning the priest is to add wood to the fire, arrange the burnt offering on it, and burn the fat portions of the peace offerings on it.

    Leviticus 6:12

    • וּבִעֵ֨רuvierHc/Vpq3mstagged: and he will kindle

Numbers

three uses
  • Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.

    Numbers 11:1

    • וַתִּבְעַר־vativar-Hc/Vqw3fstagged: and it burned
  • So that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the LORD had burned among them.

    Numbers 11:3

    • בָעֲרָ֥הvaarahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it had burned
  • Yet Kain will be destroyed when Asshur takes you captive.”

    Numbers 24:22

    • לְבָ֣עֵֽרlevaerpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: into consuming

Deuteronomy

sixteen uses
  • You came near and stood at the base of the mountain, a mountain blazing with fire to the heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness.

    Deuteronomy 4:11

    • בֹּעֵ֤רboerverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: burning
  • And when you heard the voice out of the darkness while the mountain was blazing with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your elders approached me,

    Deuteronomy 5:23

    • בֹּעֵ֣רboerverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: burning
  • So I went back down the mountain while it was blazing with fire, with the two tablets of the covenant in my hands.

    Deuteronomy 9:15

    • בֹּעֵ֣רboerverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: burning
  • Such a prophet or dreamer must be put to death, because he has advocated rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery; he has tried to turn you from the way in which the LORD your God has commanded you to walk. So you must purge the evil from among you.

    Deuteronomy 13:5

    • וּבִֽעַרְתָּ֥uviartaHc/Vpq2mstagged: and you will remove
  • The hands of the witnesses shall be the first in putting him to death, and after that, the hands of all the people. So you must purge the evil from among you.

    Deuteronomy 17:7

    • וּבִֽעַרְתָּ֥uviartaHc/Vpq2mstagged: and you will remove
  • But the man who acts presumptuously, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there to serve the LORD your God, or to the judge, must be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel.

    Deuteronomy 17:12

    • וּבִֽעַרְתָּ֥uviartaHc/Vpq2mstagged: and you will remove
  • You must show him no pity. You are to purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, that it may go well with you.

    Deuteronomy 19:13

    • וּבִֽעַרְתָּ֧uviartaHc/Vpq2mstagged: and you will remove
  • you must do to him as he intended to do to his brother. So you must purge the evil from among you.

    Deuteronomy 19:19

    • וּבִֽעַרְתָּ֥uviartaHc/Vpq2mstagged: and you will remove
  • So you shall purge from among you the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the LORD.

    Deuteronomy 21:9

    • תְּבַעֵ֛רtevaerverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will remove
  • Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.

    Deuteronomy 21:21

    • וּבִֽעַרְתָּ֥uviartaHc/Vpq2mstagged: and you will remove
  • she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. So you must purge the evil from among you.

    Deuteronomy 22:21

    • וּבִֽעַרְתָּ֥uviartaHc/Vpq2mstagged: and you will remove
  • If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

    Deuteronomy 22:22

    • וּבִֽעַרְתָּ֥uviartaHc/Vpq2mstagged: and you will remove
  • you must take both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. So you must purge the evil from among you.

    Deuteronomy 22:24

    • וּבִֽעַרְתָּ֥uviartaHc/Vpq2mstagged: and you will remove
  • If a man is caught kidnapping one of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. So you must purge the evil from among you.

    Deuteronomy 24:7

    • וּבִֽעַרְתָּ֥uviartaHc/Vpq2mstagged: and you will remove
  • Then you shall declare in the presence of the LORD your God, “I have removed from my house the sacred portion and have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all the commandments You have given me. I have not transgressed or forgotten Your commandments.

    Deuteronomy 26:13

    • בִּעַ֧רְתִּיbiartiverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have removed
  • I have not eaten any of the sacred portion while in mourning, or removed any of it while unclean, or offered any of it for the dead. I have obeyed the LORD my God; I have done everything You commanded me.

    Deuteronomy 26:14

    • בִעַ֤רְתִּיviartiverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have removed

Judges

four uses
  • Then he lit the torches and released the foxes into the standing grain of the Philistines, burning up the piles of grain and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.

    Judges 15:5

    • וַיַּבְעֶר־vaiyaver-Hc/Vhw3mstagged: and he kindled
    • וַיַּבְעֵ֛רvaiyaverHc/Vhw3mstagged: and it burned up
  • When Samson arrived in Lehi, the Philistines came out shouting against him. And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him. The ropes on his arms became like burnt flax, and the bonds broke loose from his hands.

    Judges 15:14

    • בָּעֲר֣וּbaaruverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: people have burned
  • Hand over the wicked men of Gibeah so we can put them to death and purge Israel of this evil.” But the Benjamites refused to heed the voice of their fellow Israelites.

    Judges 20:13

    • וּנְבַעֲרָ֥הunevaarahconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common pluraltagged: and let us remove

2 Samuel

three uses
  • How much more, when wicked men kill a righteous man in his own house and on his own bed, shall I not now require his blood from your hands and remove you from the earth!”

    2 Samuel 4:11

    • וּבִעַרְתִּ֥יuviartiHc/Vpq1cstagged: and I will remove
  • Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; glowing coals blazed forth.

    2 Samuel 22:9

    • בָּעֲר֥וּbaaruverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they burned
  • From the brightness of His presence coals of fire blazed forth.

    2 Samuel 22:13

    • בָּעֲר֖וּbaaruverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they burned

1 Kings

five uses
  • Because of all this, behold, I am bringing disaster on the house of Jeroboam: I will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both slave and free, in Israel; I will burn up the house of Jeroboam as one burns up dung until it is gone!

    1 Kings 14:10

    • וּבִֽעַרְתִּי֙uviartiHc/Vpq1cstagged: and I will sweep away
    • יְבַעֵ֥רyevaerverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: someone sweeps away
  • So now I will consume Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat:

    1 Kings 16:3

    • מַבְעִ֛ירmavirverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: about to sweep away
  • This is what the LORD says: ‘I will bring calamity on you and consume your descendants; I will cut off from Ahab every male in Israel, both slave and free.

    1 Kings 21:21

    • וּבִעַרְתִּ֖יuviartiHc/Vpq1cstagged: and I will sweep away
  • He banished from the land the male shrine prostitutes who remained from the days of his father Asa.

    1 Kings 22:46

    • בִּעֵ֖רbierverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he destroyed

2 Kings

one use
  • Furthermore, Josiah removed the mediums and spiritists, the household gods and idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. He did this to carry out the words of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of the LORD.

    2 Kings 23:24

    • בִּעֵ֖רbierverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he removed

2 Chronicles

four uses
  • the lampstands of pure gold and their lamps, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary as prescribed;

    2 Chronicles 4:20

    • לְבַעֲרָ֧םlevaarampreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to burn they
  • Every morning and every evening they present burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the LORD. They set out the rows of showbread on the ceremonially clean table, and every evening they light the lamps of the gold lampstand. We are carrying out the requirements of the LORD our God, while you have forsaken Him.

    2 Chronicles 13:11

    • לְבָעֵר֙levaerpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to burn
  • However, some good is found in you, for you have removed the Asherah poles from the land and have set your heart on seeking God.”

    2 Chronicles 19:3

    • בִעַ֤רְתָּviartaverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have removed
  • Moreover, Ahaz burned incense in the Valley of Hinnom and sacrificed his sons in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

    2 Chronicles 28:3

    • וַיַּבְעֵ֤רvaiyaverHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he burned

Nehemiah

one use
  • We have cast lots among the priests, Levites, and people for the donation of wood by our families at the appointed times each year. They are to bring it to the house of our God to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the Law.

    Nehemiah 10:34

    • לְבַעֵ֗רlevaerpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to burn

Esther

one use
  • Queen Vashti, however, refused to come at the king’s command brought by his eunuchs. And the king became furious, and his anger burned within him.

    Esther 1:12

    • בָּעֲרָ֥הbaarahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it burned

Job

one use
  • While he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “The fire of God fell from heaven. It burned and consumed the sheep and the servants, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

    Job 1:16

    • וַתִּבְעַ֥רvativarHc/Vqw3fstagged: and it burned

Psalms

eight uses
  • Kiss the Son, lest He be angry and you perish in your rebellion, when His wrath ignites in an instant. Blessed are all who take refuge in Him.

    Psalms 2:12

    • יִבְעַ֣רyivarverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it burns
  • Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; glowing coals blazed forth.

    Psalms 18:8

    • בָּעֲר֥וּbaaruverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they burned
  • My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:

    Psalms 39:3

    • תִבְעַר־tivar-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it burned
  • How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

    Psalms 79:5

    • תִּבְעַ֥רtivarverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: will it burn
  • As fire consumes a forest, as a flame sets the mountains ablaze,

    Psalms 83:14

    • תִּבְעַר־tivar-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it burns
  • How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?

    Psalms 89:46

    • תִּבְעַ֖רtivarverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: will it burn
  • Take notice, O senseless among the people! O fools, when will you be wise?

    Psalms 94:8

    • בֹּעֲרִ֣יםboarimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: O stupid
  • Then fire blazed through their company; flames consumed the wicked.

    Psalms 106:18

    • וַתִּבְעַר־vativar-Hc/Vqw3fstagged: and it burned

Isaiah

seventeen uses
  • The strong man will become tinder and his work will be a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the flames.

    Isaiah 1:31

    • וּבָעֲר֧וּuvaaruHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will burn
  • The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.

    Isaiah 3:14

    • בִּֽעַרְתֶּ֣םbiartemverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you have consumed
  • when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains from the heart of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.

    Isaiah 4:4

    • בָּעֵֽר׃baerverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: burning
  • Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.

    Isaiah 5:5

    • לְבָעֵ֔רlevaerpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: into grazing
  • And though a tenth remains in the land, it will be burned again. As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so the holy seed will be a stump in the land.”

    Isaiah 6:13

    • לְבָעֵ֑רlevaerpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: into burning
  • For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in billows of smoke.

    Isaiah 9:18

    • בָעֲרָ֤הvaarahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has burned
  • And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.

    Isaiah 10:17

    • וּבָעֲרָ֗הuvaarahHc/Vqq3fstagged: and it will burn
  • The princes of Zoan are mere fools; Pharaoh’s wise counselors give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the wise, a son of eastern kings”?

    Isaiah 19:11

    • נִבְעָרָ֑הnivarahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine singulartagged: foolish
  • Behold, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, with burning anger and dense smoke. His lips are full of fury, and His tongue is like a consuming fire.

    Isaiah 30:27

    • בֹּעֵ֣רboerverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: burning
  • For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.

    Isaiah 30:33

    • בֹּעֲרָ֖הboarahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: about to burn
  • Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.

    Isaiah 34:9

    • בֹּעֵרָֽה׃boerahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: burning
  • Lebanon is not sufficient for fuel, nor its animals enough for a burnt offering.

    Isaiah 40:16

    • בָּעֵ֑רbaerverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: burning
  • So He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle. It enveloped them in flames, but they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.

    Isaiah 42:25

    • וַתִּבְעַר־vativar-Hc/Vqw3fstagged: and it burned
  • When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you go through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched; the flames will not set you ablaze.

    Isaiah 43:2

    • תִבְעַר־tivar-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will burn
  • It serves as fuel for man. He takes some of it to warm himself, and he kindles a fire and bakes his bread; he even fashions it into a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to it.

    Isaiah 44:15

    • לְבָעֵ֔רlevaerpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to burn
  • Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who array yourselves with firebrands, walk in the light of your fire and of the firebrands you have lit! This is what you will receive from My hand: You will lie down in a place of torment.

    Isaiah 50:11

    • בִּֽעַרְתֶּ֔םbiartemverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you have kindled
  • For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep still, until her righteousness shines like a bright light, her salvation like a blazing torch.

    Isaiah 62:1

    • יִבְעָֽר׃yivarverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it burns

Jeremiah

eleven uses
  • Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil deeds.”

    Jeremiah 4:4

    • וּבָעֲרָה֙uvaarahHc/Vqq3fstagged: and it will burn
  • The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.

    Jeremiah 7:18

    • מְבַעֲרִ֣יםmevaarimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: kindling
  • Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished.

    Jeremiah 7:20

    • וּבָעֲרָ֖הuvaarahHc/Vqq3fstagged: and it will burn
  • But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

    Jeremiah 10:8

    • יִבְעֲר֣וּyivaruverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they are stupid
  • Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.

    Jeremiah 10:14

    • נִבְעַ֤רnivarverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he is stupid
  • For the shepherds have become senseless; they do not seek the LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered.

    Jeremiah 10:21

    • נִבְעֲרוּ֙nivaruverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have behaved stupidly
  • If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.

    Jeremiah 20:9

    • בֹּעֶ֔רֶתboeretverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: burning
  • O house of David, this is what the LORD says: ‘Administer justice every morning, and rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor, or My wrath will go forth like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it because of their evil deeds.

    Jeremiah 21:12

    • וּבָעֲרָה֙uvaarahHc/Vqq3fstagged: and it will burn
  • Since it was the ninth month, the king was sitting in his winter quarters with a fire burning before him.

    Jeremiah 36:22

    • מְבֹעָֽרֶת׃mevoaretverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: kindled
  • Therefore My wrath and anger poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, so that they have become the desolate ruin they are today.

    Jeremiah 44:6

    • וַתִּבְעַר֙vativarHc/Vqw3fstagged: and it burned
  • Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.

    Jeremiah 51:17

    • נִבְעַ֤רnivarverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he is stupid

Lamentations

one use
  • In fierce anger He has cut off every horn of Israel and withdrawn His right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it.

    Lamentations 2:3

    • וַיִּבְעַ֤רvaiyivarHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he has burned

Ezekiel

seven uses
  • In the midst of the living creatures was the appearance of glowing coals of fire, or of torches. Fire moved back and forth between the living creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it.

    Ezekiel 1:13

    • בֹּֽעֲרוֹת֙boarotverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: burning
  • When the days of the siege have ended, you are to burn up a third of the hair inside the city; you are also to take a third and slash it with the sword all around the city; and you are to scatter a third to the wind. For I will unleash a sword behind them.

    Ezekiel 5:2

    • תַּבְעִיר֙tavirverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will burn
  • Then all people will see that I, the LORD, have kindled it; it will not be quenched.”

    Ezekiel 20:48

    • בִּֽעַרְתִּ֑יהָbiartihaverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: I have kindled it
  • I will pour out My anger upon you; I will breathe the fire of My fury against you; I will hand you over to brutal men, skilled in destruction.

    Ezekiel 21:31

    • בֹּֽעֲרִ֔יםboarimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: brutish
  • Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out, kindle fires, and burn up the weapons—the bucklers and shields, the bows and arrows, the clubs and spears. For seven years they will use them for fuel.

    Ezekiel 39:9

    • וּבִעֲר֡וּuviaruHc/Vpq3cptagged: and they will kindle
    • וּבִעֲר֥וּuviaruHc/Vpq3cptagged: and they will kindle
  • They will not gather wood from the countryside or cut it from the forests, for they will use the weapons for fuel. They will loot those who looted them and plunder those who plundered them, declares the Lord GOD.

    Ezekiel 39:10

    • יְבַֽעֲרוּ־yevaaru-verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will kindle

Hosea

two uses
  • They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.

    Hosea 7:4

    • בֹּעֵ֖רָהboerahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: burning
  • For they prepare their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

    Hosea 7:6

    • בֹעֵ֖רvoerverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: burning

Nahum

one use
  • “Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will send your chariots up in smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voices of your messengers will no longer be heard.”

    Nahum 2:13

    • וְהִבְעַרְתִּ֤יvehivartiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will burn

Malachi

one use
  • “For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”

    Malachi 4:1

    • בֹּעֵ֖רboerverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: burning

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Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

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Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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