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# בַּעַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1198

**brutishness** — used 5 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

brutishness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1198/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בַּ֫עַר: n.m. brutishness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1198/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. brutishness (only poet.)—abs. ב׳ ψ 49:11 + 3 times, בָּ֑עַר Pr 12:1;—in combination, אִישׁ־ב׳ brutish man ψ 92:7 (‖ כסיל); elsewhere ב׳ alone in same sense (concrete) ψ 49:11 (‖ id.), & as pred. = adj., ψ 73:22 Pr 12:1; 30:2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Proverbs 12:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.1/#tree)

אֹהֵ֣ב מ֭וּסָראֹ֣הֵֽב דָּ֑עַת וְשֹׂנֵ֖א תוֹכַ֣חַת בָּֽעַר׃

*Word for word:* \[one.who\].loves discipline \[is\].loving knowledge and \[one.who\].hates rebuke \[is\].stupid

*JPS 1917:* Whoso loveth knowledge loveth correction; but he that is brutish hateth reproof.

[Psalms 73:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.22/#tree)

וַאֲנִי־בַ֭עַר וְלֹ֣א אֵדָ֑ע בְּ֝הֵמ֗וֹת הָיִ֥יתִי עִמָּֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* and I \[was\].stupid and not I.knew animals I.was with you

*JPS 1917:* But I was brutish, and ignorant; I was as a beast before Thee.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1198.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1198/): 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).