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# בְּרִיחַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1280

**bar** — used 40 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

bar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1280/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בְּרִיחַ²: n.m. bar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1280/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. bar (cf. Assyrian burûḫu, spear-shaft, spear, COTGloss)—בְּרִיחַ Dt 3:5 + 11 times (cstr. Am 1:5 etc.); בְּרִיחוֹ Ex 35:11; 39:33 Kt (Qr both ־חָיו needless); pl. בְּרִיחִם Ex 26:26 + 8 times, בְּרִיחִים 2 Ch 14:6, בְּרִיחֵי Ex 36:31 + 3 times, בְּרִיחָ֑יִךְ Na 3:13, בְּרִיחָיו Ex 40:18 + 7 times (+ Qr Ex 35:11; 39:33), בְּרִיחֶיהָ Je 51:30 La 2:9, בְּרִחֶיהָ Jon 2:7, בְּרִיחֶ֑הָ Is 15:5 but cf. infr.;— . bar, of wood, joining boards of tabern. Ex 26:26, 27(×2) 28, 29(×2) 35:11; 36:31, 32(×2), 33, 34(×2); 40:18 Nu 3:36; 4:31 (all P). bar(s) of city-gates Dt 3:5; Ju 16:3; 1 S 23:7; 2 Ch 8:5; 14:6; id. of gates of Jerusalem La 2:9; also (‖ מנעולים) Ne 3:3, 6, 13, 14, 15 cf. ψ 147:13; cf. Am 1:5 Na 3:13; Je 49:31; Ez 38:11 Je 51:30; bars of city-gates, ב׳ נחשׁת 1 K 4:13, ב׳ ברזל Is 45:2 (of Babylon, broken bef. Cyrus); בְּרִיחֶ֑הָ Is 15:5 read prob. c. 𝔗 Di al. בָּר׳ v. בָּרִיחַ; yet cf. Che’s crit. n. fig. ב׳ בַּרְזֶל of distress, etc. ψ 107:16; of fortress, ב׳ אַרְמוֹן in simile Pr 18:19; fig. ב׳ of earth (pictured as house out of which Jonah is shut) Jon 2:7. (Older usage sg. of bar of door or gate, i.e. the great bar across the gate; so Dt 3:5; Ju 16:3; Am 1:5; 1 S 23:7; 1 K 4:13; Je 49:31; Pr 18:19; Jb 38:10; 2 Ch 8:5; Ez 38:11 Later pl. Is 45:2 La 2:9 2 Ch 14:6; Ne 3:3, 6, 13, 14, 15; ψ 147:13, but also Na 3:13.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 36 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 (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: bars (27); bar\[s\] (5); bar (4).

## In the verses

[Psalms 107:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.16/#tree)

כִּֽי־שִׁ֭בַּר דַּלְת֣וֹת נְחֹ֑שֶׁת וּבְרִיחֵ֖י בַרְזֶ֣ל גִּדֵּֽעַ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) he.breaks.down gates of.bronze and bars of.iron he.cuts.down

*JPS 1917:* For He hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.

[Proverbs 18:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.18.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.18.19/#tree)

אָ֗ח נִפְשָׁ֥ע מִקִּרְיַת־עֹ֑ז וּ֝מִדְיָנִ֗ים כִּבְרִ֥יחַ אַרְמֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* a.brother transgressed \[is\].more than.a.town of.strength and contentions \[are\].like.\[the\] bar of.a.fortress

*JPS 1917:* A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1280/): 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).