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# בָּאַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H874

**make distinct** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

make distinct [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/874/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

באר: vb. Pi. make distinct, plain [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/874/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. only Pi. make distinct, plain (so NH, Aramaic; LagBN 58 prop. for Qal בָּאֵר, בָּאֹר, cf. deriv. infr.; Thes & most comp. Arabic بَأَرَ dig a pit or well, but this prob. denom. v. Lagl.c.)— Pf. 3 ms. בֵּאֵר Dt 1:5, Imv. בָּאֵר Hb 2:2; Inf. abs. בַּאֵר Dt 27:8 (cf. Bö§393, 4)—make distinct, plain, of letters on tablets Hb 2:2 כְּתֹב חָזוֹן וּבָאֵר עַל־הַלֻּחוֹת לְמַעַן יָרוּץ קוֹרֵא בוֹ, i.e. so that one may run past and (still) read; or, so that one may read swiftly; on stones Dt 27:8וְכָתַבְתָּ עַל־הָאֲבָנִים … בַּאֵר הֵיטֵב and thou shalt write upon the \[whitewashed\] stones all the words of this law, doing it plainly and well; fig. explain, expound Dt 1:5 הוֹאִיל מֹשֶׁה בֵּאֵר הַתּוֹרָה Moses began (and) expounded the law.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: clearly (1); he made clear (1); make \[it\] clear (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 27:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.27.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.27.8/#tree)

וְכָתַבְתָּ֣ עַל־הָאֲבָנִ֗ים אֶֽת־כָּל־דִּבְרֵ֛י הַתּוֹרָ֥ה הַזֹּ֖את בַּאֵ֥ר הֵיטֵֽב׃ס

*Word for word:* and you.will.write on the stones (et) all the.words of the.law (the) this clearly well.(do.well)

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly.'

[Deuteronomy 1:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.1.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.1.5/#tree)

בְּעֵ֥בֶר הַיַּרְדֵּ֖ן בְּאֶ֣רֶץ מוֹאָ֑ב הוֹאִ֣יל מֹשֶׁ֔ה בֵּאֵ֛ר אֶת־הַתּוֹרָ֥ה הַזֹּ֖את לֵאמֹֽר׃

*Word for word:* on the.other.side of the.Jordan in the.land of.Moab he.undertook Moses he.made.clear (et) the law (the) this (cmp)

*JPS 1917:* beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, took Moses upon him to expound this law, saying:

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/874.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/874/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).