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# בַּרְבֻּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1257

**fowl** — 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

fowl [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1257/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בַּרְבֻּרִים²: n.m.pl. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1257/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m.pl. birds fattened for table of Solomon 1 K 5:3; capons Ki, geese (from their pure white feathers) 𝔗 Jer Thes, swans Ew, guinea-hens Th, fowls Tristr. AV RV (ברברי = ינשׁוף water-birds Lv 11:17 𝔗 Sam).

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

## In the verses

[1 Kings 5:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.5.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.5.3/#tree)

עֲשָׂרָ֨ה בָקָ֜ר בְּרִאִ֗ים וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים בָּקָ֛ר רְעִ֖י וּמֵ֣אָה צֹ֑אן לְ֠בַד מֵֽאַיָּ֤ל וּצְבִי֙ וְיַחְמ֔וּר וּבַרְבֻּרִ֖ים אֲבוּסִֽים׃

*Word for word:* ten cattle fat and twenty cattle pasture and one.hundred sheep apart from deer and gazelle and roe-deer and birds fattened

*JPS 1917:* ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, beside harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fatted fowl.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1257/): 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).