בָּרָא
ba.ra
“to create”
Definition
(absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes)
a primitive root;
- to create, shape, form 1a) (Qal) to shape, fashion, create (always with God as subject) 1a1) of heaven and earth 1a2) of individual man 1a3) of new conditions and circumstances 1a4) of transformations 1b) (Niphal) to be created 1b1) of heaven and earth 1b2) of birth 1b3) of something new 1b4) of miracles 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to cut down 1c2) to cut out
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Grammar & Morphology
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Occurrences
בָּרָא appears 41 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Why then do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of all the offerings of My people Israel.’
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So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”
I am the LORD, your Holy One,the Creator of Israel, and your King.”
For behold, I will createnew heavens and a new earth.The former things will not be remembered,nor will they come to mind.
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