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Hebrew noun (Aramaic, masculine) · H1247

בַּר

barbar

son

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

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1247is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 2 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 14
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H1247

a son, grandson, etc.

The King James renders it: [idiom] old, son.

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

bar is rendered "son". It stands 19 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.

  • Ten of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 5:1Later, the prophets Haggai and Zechariah son of Iddo prophesied to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, who was over them.
  • The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.

The first use

Later, the prophets Haggai and Zechariah son of Iddo prophesied to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, who was over them.

Ezra 5:1בַר־

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

Where the word stands

Ten of the word's nineteen uses are in Daniel.

The other 37 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • sons of5
  • son of4
  • and sons his2
  • people of2
  • about a son of1
  • and young of1
  • like a son of1
  • obj. a son of1
  • son his1
  • sons their1

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.

בַּרְזֶלbarzelironUses76
בַּרbarfieldUses8
בַּרbarpureUses7
בַּרְקָןbarqanbriarUses2
בַּרְבֻּרbarburfowlUses1
בַּרְחֻמִיBarchumiBahuriteUses1
בַּרbarsonUsesnot recorded

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

All 19, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

14 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

  • בַּר־3
  • בְּנֵ֤י2
  • וּבְנֽוֹהִי׃2
  • כְּבַ֥ר2
  • בְּנֵי֩1
  • בְּנֵ֨י1
  • בְנֵֽי־1
  • בְּֽנֵי־1
  • בְּנֵי־1
  • בְּנֵיה֣וֹן1
  • בַר־1
  • בְּרֵהּ֙1

and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)7ANcmpc
  • noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)4ANcbsc
  • preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)3AR/Ncbsc
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2AC/Ncmpc/Sp3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1AC/Ncmpc
  • noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1ANcbsc/Sp3ms
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1ANcmpc/Sp3mp

Ezra

nine uses
  • Later, the prophets Haggai and Zechariah son of Iddo prophesied to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, who was over them.

    Ezra 5:1

    • בַר־var-noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: son of
  • Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua son of Jozadak rose up and began to rebuild the house of God in Jerusalem. And the prophets of God were with them, helping them.

    Ezra 5:2

    • בַּר־bar-noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: son of
    • בַּר־bar-noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: son of
  • Whatever is needed—young bulls, rams, and lambs for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, as well as wheat, salt, wine, and oil, as requested by the priests in Jerusalem—must be given to them daily without fail.

    Ezra 6:9

    • וּבְנֵ֣יuveneiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and young of
  • Then they will be able to offer sacrifices of a sweet aroma to the God of heaven and to pray for the lives of the king and his sons.

    Ezra 6:10

    • וּבְנֽוֹהִי׃uvenohiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and sons his
  • So the Jewish elders built and prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah son of Iddo. They finished building according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes, kings of Persia.

    Ezra 6:14

    • בַּר־bar-noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: son of
  • Then the people of Israel—the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the exiles—celebrated the dedication of the house of God with joy.

    Ezra 6:16

    • בְנֵֽי־venei-noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: people of
    • בְּנֵי־benei-noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: people of
  • Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven must be done diligently for His house. For why should wrath fall on the realm of the king and his sons?

    Ezra 7:23

    • וּבְנֽוֹהִי׃uvenohiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and sons his

Daniel

ten uses
  • Arioch hastily brought Daniel before the king and said to him, “I have found a man among the exiles from Judah who will tell the king the interpretation.”

    Daniel 2:25

    • בְּנֵ֤יbeneinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: sons of
  • Wherever the sons of men or beasts of the field or birds of the air dwell, He has given them into your hand and has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold.

    Daniel 2:38

    • בְּֽנֵי־benei-noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: sons of
  • “Look!” he exclaimed. “I see four men, unbound and unharmed, walking around in the fire—and the fourth looks like a son of the gods!”

    Daniel 3:25

    • לְבַר־levar-preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: obj. a son of
  • So Daniel was brought before the king, who asked him, “Are you Daniel, one of the exiles my father the king brought from Judah?

    Daniel 5:13

    • בְּנֵ֤יbeneinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: sons of
  • He was driven away from mankind, and his mind was like that of a beast. He lived with the wild donkeys and ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until he acknowledged that the Most High God rules over the kingdom of mankind, setting over it whom He wishes.

    Daniel 5:21

    • בְּנֵי֩beneinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: sons of
  • But you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this.

    Daniel 5:22

    • בְּרֵהּ֙berehnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: son his
  • and Darius the Mede received the kingdom at the age of sixty-two.

    Daniel 5:31

    • כְּבַ֥רkevarpreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: about a son of
  • Then they told the king, “Daniel, one of the exiles from Judah, shows no regard for you, O king, or for the decree that you have signed. He still makes his petition three times a day.”

    Daniel 6:13

    • בְּנֵ֨יbeneinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: sons of
  • At the command of the king, the men who had falsely accused Daniel were brought and thrown into the den of lions—they and their children and wives. And before they had reached the bottom of the den, the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.

    Daniel 6:24

    • בְּנֵיה֣וֹןbeneihonnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: sons their
  • In my vision in the night I continued to watch, and I saw One like the Son of Man coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into His presence.

    Daniel 7:13

    • כְּבַ֥רkevarpreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like a son of

The letters

Gematria 202

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

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 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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

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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