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# בָּרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1262

**eat** — used 6 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

eat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1262/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּרָה: vb. eat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1262/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. eat (Assyrian barû & deriv. ZimBP 31) Pf. 2 S 12:17 בָּרָה; Impf. אֶבְרֶה 2 S 13:6, 10 eat bread (בְּרוּ־לָכֶם 1 S 17:8 scribal error for בחדו לכם 1 K 18:25 DrSm 107). Inf. לְבָרוֹת La 4:10 for devouring. Impf. תַּבְרֵנִי 2 S 13:5; Inf. לְהַבְרוֹת 2 S 3:35 cause to eat bread.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: that I may eat (2); eating (1); he ate (1).

## In the verses

[Lamentations 4:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.4.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.4.10/#tree)

יְדֵ֗י נָשִׁים֙ רַחֲמָ֣נִיּ֔וֹת בִּשְּׁל֖וּ יַלְדֵיהֶ֑ן הָי֤וּ לְבָרוֹת֙ לָ֔מוֹ בְּשֶׁ֖בֶר בַּת־עַמִּֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* \[the\].hands of.women compassionate they.have.boiled children their.own they.have.been for eating for them in the.brokenness of.the.daughter my.people my

*JPS 1917:* The hands of women full of compassion have sodden their own children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

[2 Samuel 12:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.12.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.12.17/#tree)

וַיָּקֻ֜מוּ זִקְנֵ֤י בֵיתוֹ֙ עָלָ֔יו לַהֲקִימ֖וֹ מִן־הָאָ֑רֶץ וְלֹ֣א אָבָ֔ה וְלֹֽא־בָרָ֥א אִתָּ֖ם לָֽחֶם׃

*Word for word:* and they.stood the.elders his.house his with him to raise him from the ground and not he.was.willing and not he.ate with them food

*JPS 1917:* And the elders of his house arose, and stood beside him, to raise him up from the earth; but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1262.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1262/): 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).