Hebrew noun (feminine) · H1279
בִּרְיָה
biryahbeer-yaw'
food
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: biryâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1279is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1279
food
The King James renders it: 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
biryah is rendered "food". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in 2 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 13:5Jonadab 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.’”
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
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.’”
2 Samuel 13:5הַבִּרְיָ֔ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three 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
- the food3
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.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- הַבִּרְיָ֔ה1
- הַבִּרְיָה֙1
- הַבִּרְיָֽה׃1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular3HTd/Ncfsa
2 Samuel
three uses
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.’”
- הַבִּרְיָ֔הhabiryahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the food
Then David sent word to Tamar at the palace: “Please go to the house of Amnon your brother and prepare a meal for him.”
- הַבִּרְיָֽה׃habiryahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the food
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.
- הַבִּרְיָה֙habiryahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the food
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.