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# בָּרִיא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1277

**fat** — used 14 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

fat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1277/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּרִיא: adj. fat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1277/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. fat—ψ 73:4 Ju 3:17; pl. בְּרִיאִים 1 K 5:3; cstr. בְּרִיאֵי Dn 1:15; f. בְּרִיאָה Hb 1:16 + 2 times + Ez 34:20 בִּרְיָה; Hi Ol§ 171 a בְּרִיָּה, בריאה; pl. בְּרִיאוֹת Gn 41:5 + 3 times; בְּרִיאֹת Gn 41:2, 4;—fat, cattle בקר Gn 41:2, 4, 5, 7, 18, 20 (E) 1 K 5:3; sheep Ez 34:3, 20 Zc 11:16; food Hb 1:16; אישׁ ב׳ fat man Ju 3:17; בריאי בשׂר Dn 1:15; ב׳ אולם their body fat ψ 73:4.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 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: fat (11); \[is\] fat (1); \[sheep\] (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 73:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.4/#tree)

כִּ֤י אֵ֖ין חַרְצֻבּ֥וֹת לְמוֹתָ֗ם וּבָרִ֥יא אוּלָֽם׃

*Word for word:* (dm) there.\[are\].not pains to death their and.\[is\] fat body their

*JPS 1917:* For there are no pangs at their death, and their body is sound.

[Judges 3:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.3.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.3.17/#tree)

וַיַּקְרֵב֙ אֶת־הַמִּנְחָ֔ה לְעֶגְל֖וֹן מֶ֣לֶךְ מוֹאָ֑ב וְעֶגְל֕וֹן אִ֥ישׁ בָּרִ֖יא מְאֹֽד׃

*Word for word:* and he.brought.near (et) the tribute to Eglon the.king of.Moab and Eglon \[was\].a.man fat very

*JPS 1917:* And he offered the present unto Eglon king of Moab — now Eglon was a very fat man.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1277.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1277/): 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).