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# בָּהִיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H925

**bright** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

bright [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/925/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּהִיר: adj. bright, brilliant [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/925/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. bright, brilliant, of light; only Jb 37:21 לֹא רָאוּ אוֹר בּ׳ הוּא בַּשְּׁחָקִים.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[is\] brilliant (1).

## In the verses

[Job 37:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.37.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.37.21/#tree)

וְעַתָּ֤ה ׀ לֹ֘א רָ֤אוּ א֗וֹר בָּהִ֣יר ה֭וּא בַּשְּׁחָקִ֑ים וְר֥וּחַ עָ֝בְרָ֗ה וַֽתְּטַהֲרֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* and now not people.see a.light \[is\].brilliant it in the clouds and.\[the\] wind it.has.passed.by and it has.cleansed.them

*JPS 1917:* And now men see not the light which is bright in the skies; but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/925.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/925/): 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).