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# בָּרָק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1301

**Barak** — used 13 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

Barak [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1301/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּרָק²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1301/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (lightning-flash, cf. Pun. Barcas, surname of Hamilear, cf. NeposHamilcar 1, 1; Sab. ברקם DHMZMG, 1875, 592; Palm. ברק VogPalm. 76) son of Abinoam, & leader of Israel Ju 4:6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14(×2), 15, 16, 22; 5:1, 12, 15.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Barak (12); O Barak (1).

## In the verses

[Judges 4:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.4.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.4.12/#tree)

וַיַּגִּ֖דוּ לְסִֽיסְרָ֑א כִּ֥י עָלָ֛ה בָּרָ֥ק בֶּן־אֲבִינֹ֖עַם הַר־תָּבֽוֹר׃ס

*Word for word:* and people.told to Sisera (dm).that he.had.gone.up Barak the.son of.Abinoam the.mountain of.Tabor

*JPS 1917:* And they told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.

[Judges 5:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.1/#tree)

וַתָּ֣שַׁר דְּבוֹרָ֔ה וּבָרָ֖ק בֶּן־אֲבִינֹ֑עַם בַּיּ֥וֹם הַה֖וּא לֵאמֹֽר׃

*Word for word:* and she.sang Deborah and Barak the.son of.Abinoam on the day (the) that (cmp)

*JPS 1917:* Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying:

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1301.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1301/): 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).