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# בָּרֹד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1261

**spotted** — used 4 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

spotted [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1261/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּרֹד: adj. spotted, marked [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1261/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. spotted, marked (as if sprinkled with hail? so Ki cf. LagBN 29; Syriac ܒܳܪܕܳܐ, i.e. grandinatus, grêlé, PS), mpl. of sheep & goats עֲקֻדִּים נְקֻדִּים וּבְרֻדִּים Gn 31:10, 12; horses Zc 6:3, 6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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 (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: mottled (2); \[horses\] (1); dappled (1).

## In the verses

[Zechariah 6:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.6.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.6.3/#tree)

וּבַמֶּרְכָּבָ֥ה הַשְּׁלִשִׁ֖ית סוּסִ֣ים לְבָנִ֑ים וּבַמֶּרְכָּבָה֙ הָרְבִעִ֔ית סוּסִ֥ים בְּרֻדִּ֖ים אֲמֻצִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and.\[were\] with the chariot (the) third horses white and.\[were\] with the chariot (the) fourth horses dappled strong

*JPS 1917:* and in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grizzled bay horses.

[Zechariah 6:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.6.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.6.6/#tree)

אֲשֶׁר־בָּ֞הּ הַסּוּסִ֣ים הַשְּׁחֹרִ֗ים יֹֽצְאִים֙ אֶל־אֶ֣רֶץ צָפ֔וֹן וְהַלְּבָנִ֔ים יָצְא֖וּ אֶל־אַֽחֲרֵיהֶ֑ם וְהַ֨בְּרֻדִּ֔ים יָצְא֖וּ אֶל־אֶ֥רֶץ הַתֵּימָֽן׃

*Word for word:* which with it the horses (the) black \[they.are\].going.out to \[the\].land of.\[the\].north and the.white \[horses\] they.have.gone.out to after them and the.dappled \[horses\] they.have.gone.out to the.land of the.south

*JPS 1917:* That wherein are the black horses goeth forth toward the north country; and the white went forth after them; and the grizzled went forth toward the south country;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1261.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1261/): 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).