Lexical Definition

‎בָּרָא‎ bârâʼ (baw-raw') to create ^H:V
a primitive root

choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat).

• (absolutely) to create
• (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes)

1) 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
2) to be fat
2a) (Hiphil) to make yourselves fat

See Greek: ἄρχω · γέννημα · γίνομαι · δεικνύω · διατάσσω · ἐκκαθαίρω · ἐνευλογέω · ἑτοιμάζω · κατασκευάζω · κτίζω · ποιέω

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. ‎בָּרָא‎₅₃ verb shape, create (compare Arabic probably loan-word, form, fashion by cutting, shape out, pare a reed for writing, a stick for an arrow, but also , create; Phoenician ‎הברא‎ CIS^{i. 347} incisor, a trade involving cutting; Assyrian barû, make, create, COT^{Gloss &} Hpt KAT^{2 Gloss 1} but dubious; Sabean ‎ברא‎ found, build, DHM^{ZMG 1883, 413, synonym} ‎בנה‎; Ba^{ZA. 1888, 58}, compare Assyrian banû, create, beget, with change of liquid; Aramaic ‎בְּרָא‎, , create) —

Qal Perfect Gen 1:1 + 19 t.; Imperfect ‎יִבְרָא‎ Gen 1:21; Gen 1:27; Num 16:30 Infinitive ‎בְּראֹ‎ Gen 5:1 Imperative ‎בְּרָא‎ Ps 51:12* Participle ‎בּוֺרֵא‎ Isa 42:5 + 10 t.; suffix ‎בֹּרַאֲךָ‎ Isa 43:1 ‎בּוֺרְאֶיךָ‎ Eccl 12:1 — shape, fashion, create, always of divine activity, with accusative of thing, seldom except in P and Isa².

1. object heaven and earth Gen 1:1; Gen 2:3 (P) Isa 45:18 (twice in verse); mankind Gen 1:27 (3 t. in verse); Gen 5:1; Gen 5:2 (P) Gen 6:7 (J) Deut 4:32; Ps 89:48*; Isa 45:12 the host of heaven Isa 40:26 heavens Isa 42:5 ends of the earth Isa 40:28 north and south Ps 89:13* wind Amos 4:13 the ‎תנינים‎ Gen 1:21 (P).

2. the individual man Mal 2:10 (|| father) Eccl 12:1 the smith and the waster Isa 54:16 (twice in verse); Israel as a nation Isa 43:15 Jacob Isa 43:1 the seed of Israel Isa 43:7.

3. new conditions and circumstances: righteousness and salvation Isa 45:8 darkness and evil Isa 45:7 fruit of the lips Isa 57:19 a new thing ‎חֲדָשָׁה‎ (a woman encompassing a man) Jer 31:22 ‎בְּרִיאָה‎ (swallowing up the Korahites) Num 16:30 (J); cloud and flame over Zion Isa 4:5.

4. of transformations: a clean heart Ps 51:12* (|| ‎חִדֵּשׁ‎); new heaven and earth Isa 65:17 (in place of old); transformation of nature Isa 41:20 with double accusative ‎בורא ירושׁלם גילה‎ transform Jerusalem into rejoicing Isa 65:18. Niph`al Perfect 2 feminine singular ‎נִבְרֵאתְ‎ Ezek 21:35* 3 plural ‎נִבְרְאוּ‎ Exod 34:10 + 2 t.; Imperfect ‎יִבָּרֵא֑וּן‎ Ps 104:30 Infinitive suffix ‎הִבָּרַאֲךָ‎ Ezek 28:13 ‎הִבָּֽרְאָךְ‎ Ezek 28:15 ‎הִבָּֽרְאָם‎ Gen 2:4; Gen 5:2 Participle ‎נִבְרָא‎ Ps 102:19* — Pass.

1. be created: heaven and earth Gen 2:4 (P); creatures Ps 104:30 mankind Gen 5:2 (P); heavens Ps 148:5.

2. with reference to birth: ‎במקום אשׁר נבראת‎ in the place where thou wast created (i.e. native land) Ezek 21:35* ‎יום הבראך‎ day when thou wast created (king of Tyre) Ezek 28:13; Ezek 28:15 (compare ‎היום ילדתיך‎ Ps 2:7); ‎עַם נִבְרָא‎ Ps 102:19* (|| ‎עַם נוֺלָד‎ Ps 22:32*).

3. of something new, astonishing: miracles Exod 34:10 (J); new things, ‎חדשׁות‎ Isa 48:6. Pi`el Perfect ‎בֵּרֵאתָ‎ Josh 17:15 ‎בֵּרֵאתוֺ‎ Josh 17:18 Infinitive absolute ‎בָּרֵא‎ Ezek 21:24* (twice in verse); Ezek 23:47 —

1. cut down: a forest Josh 17:15; Josh 17:18 (J); ‎וּבָרֵא אוֺתְהֶן בְּחַרְבוֺתָם‎ Ezek 23:47.

2. cut out: ‎יָד‎ hand, as an index Ezek 21:24* (twice in verse).

II. [‎בָּרָא‎] verb be fat (Arabic be free of a thing, sound, healthy; see ‎מרא‎) —

Hiph`il Infinitive ‎לְהַבְרִיאֲכֶם‎ 1Sam 2:29 to make yourselves fat.

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