Hebrew verb · H1262
בָּרָה
barahbaw-raw'
to eat
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bârâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1262is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1262
to select; to feed; to render clear
The King James renders it: choose, (cause to) eat, manifest, (give) meat.
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
barah is rendered "to eat". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Four of the uses stand in 2 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 17:8And Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why do you come out and array yourselves for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose one of your men and have him come down against me.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
And Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why do you come out and array yourselves for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose one of your men and have him come down against me.
1 Samuel 17:8בְּרוּ־
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's six uses are in 2 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- so I may eat2
- and let her cause to eat me1
- commission1
- for eating1
- to make to eat1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בָּרַח | barach | to flee | Uses63 |
| בָּרָא | bara | to create | Uses55 |
| בָּרָד | barad | hail | Uses29 |
| בָּרָק | baraq | to use lightning | Uses21 |
| בָּרַר | barar | to purify | Uses18 |
| בָּר | bar | grain | Uses14 |
| בָּרִיא | bari | fat | Uses13 |
| בָּרֹד | barod | spotted | Uses4 |
| בָּרִיחַ | bariach | fleeing | Uses4 |
| בָּרֶקֶת | bareqeth | gem | Uses3 |
| בָּרַד | barad | to hail | Uses1 |
| בָּרַק | baraq | to flash | Uses1 |
and 1 more on the stem.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- וְאֶבְרֶ֖ה2
- בְּרוּ־1
- וְתַבְרֵ֣נִי1
- לְבָרוֹת֙1
- לְהַבְר֧וֹת1
The grammar of each form
- HC/Vqu1cs2HC/Vqu1cs
- HC/Vhu3fs/Sp1bs1HC/Vhu3fs/Sp1bs
- preposition + noun · feminine singular1HR/Ncfsa
- preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vhcc
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural1HVqv2mp
1 Samuel
one use
And Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why do you come out and array yourselves for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose one of your men and have him come down against me.
- בְּרוּ־beru-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: commission
2 Samuel
four uses
Then all the people came and urged David to eat something while it was still day, but David took an oath, saying, “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun sets!”
- לְהַבְר֧וֹתlehavrotpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make to eat
Jonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare it in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.’”
- וְתַבְרֵ֣נִיvetavreniHC/Vhu3fs/Sp1bstagged: and let her cause to eat me
So Amnon lay down and feigned illness. When the king came to see him, Amnon said, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, so that I may eat from her hand.”
- וְאֶבְרֶ֖הveevrehHC/Vqu1cstagged: so I may eat
Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the bedroom, so that I may eat it from your hand.” Tamar took the cakes she had made and went to her brother Amnon’s bedroom.
- וְאֶבְרֶ֖הveevrehHC/Vqu1cstagged: so I may eat
Lamentations
one use
The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- לְבָרוֹת֙levarotpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: for eating
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.