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# בָּרַק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1299

**flash** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

flash [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1299/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּרַק: vb. flash [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1299/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. flash, of lightning (Arabic بَرَقَ gleam, flash, lighten, Assyrian barâḳu ZimBP 76, Aramaic בְּרַק, ܒܪܰܩ, Ethiopic በረቀ Sab. ברק Hal252 cf. DHMZMG 1875, 597)— Pf. בָּרַק so read after 𝔊L 2 S 22:15 & also in ‖ ψ 18:15 (cf. Klo Che crit. n.); Imv. בְּרֹק ψ 144:6;—all c. acc. cogn. בָּרָק, בְּרָקִים;—flash, trans. flash lightning, subj. י׳.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: flash (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 144:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.144.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.144.6/#tree)

בְּר֣וֹק בָּ֭רָק וּתְפִיצֵ֑ם שְׁלַ֥ח חִ֝צֶּ֗יךָ וּתְהֻמֵּֽם׃

*Word for word:* flash lightning and you will.scatter.them send arrows your and you will.confuse.them

*JPS 1917:* Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; send out Thine arrows, and discomfit them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1299.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1299/): 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).