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# בִּרְיָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1279

**food** — used 3 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

food [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1279/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בִּרְיָה: n.f. food [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1279/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. food 2 S 13:5, 7, 10; Ez 34:20 v. בָּרִיא.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number, only a cross-reference (5 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: food (3).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 13:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.13.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.13.7/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁלַ֥ח דָּוִ֛ד אֶל־תָּמָ֖ר הַבַּ֣יְתָה לֵאמֹ֑ר לְכִ֣י נָ֗א בֵּ֚ית אַמְנ֣וֹן אָחִ֔יךְ וַעֲשִׂי־ל֖וֹ הַבִּרְיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.sent David to Tamar to the house (cmp) go please the.house of.Amnon brother your and make for him the food

*JPS 1917:* Then David sent home to Tamar, saying: 'Go now to thy brother Amnon's house, and dress him food.'

[2 Samuel 13:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.13.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.13.10/#tree)

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר אַמְנ֜וֹן אֶל־תָּמָ֗ר הָבִ֤יאִי הַבִּרְיָה֙ הַחֶ֔דֶר וְאֶבְרֶ֖ה מִיָּדֵ֑ךְ וַתִּקַּ֣ח תָּמָ֗ר אֶת־הַלְּבִבוֹת֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשָׂ֔תָה וַתָּבֵ֛א לְאַמְנ֥וֹן אָחִ֖יהָ הֶחָֽדְרָה׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Amnon to Tamar bring the food the chamber so that.I.may.eat from hand your and she.took Tamar (et) the cakes which she.had.made and she.brought.\[them\] to Amnon brother her to the chamber

*JPS 1917:* And Amnon said unto Tamar: 'Bring the food into the chamber, that I may eat of thy hand.' And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1279.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1279/): 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).