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# בָּרָק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1300

**lightning** — used 21 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

lightning [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1300/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּרָק: n.m. lightning [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1300/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ez 1:13 lightning (chiefly in poetry) (Arabic بَرْقٌ, Assyrian birḳu COTGloss, ZimBP 76, 82 Aramaic בְּרַק, ܒܰܪܩܳܐ )—abs. ב׳ Jb 20:25 + 7 times + 2 S 22:15 (cf. infr.); cstr. בְּרַק Dt 32:41 + 2 times; pl. בְּרָקִים Ex 19:16 + 7 times, בְּרָקָיו ψ 97:4;—lightning, lit. mostly pl. = lightnings, lightning-flashes Ex 19:16 ψ 18:15 (in theoph., on 2 S 22:15 v. infr.) 77:19; 97:4; 135:7 Jb 38:35 Je 10:13; 51:16; so in sim. of swift brightness Na 2:5, sg. only ψ 144:6 2 S 22:15 (where however read בְּרָקִים בָּרַק cf. בָּרַק—so 𝔊L Klo Che, cf. his crit. n. ψ 18:15), Ez 1:13 (in vision), and in sim. of brightness Dn 10:6; swift destruction Zc 9:14. fig. (always sing.) of flashing arrow-head Jb 20:25, cf. ב׳ חרב Dt 32:41, ב׳ חנית Na 3:3 Hb 3:11; cf. glitter of weapon Ez 21:15, 20, 33.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 21 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: lightning (8); lightning flashes (7); flashes (2).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 22:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.15/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁלַ֥ח חִצִּ֖ים וַיְפִיצֵ֑ם בָּרָ֖ק וַיָּהֹֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.sent.out arrows and he scattered.them lightning and he.confused.\[them\]

*JPS 1917:* And He sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.

[Psalms 97:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.97.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.97.4/#tree)

הֵאִ֣ירוּ בְרָקָ֣יו תֵּבֵ֑ל רָאֲתָ֖ה וַתָּחֵ֣ל הָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* they.light.up flashes his.lightning \[the\].world it.sees and it.trembled the earth

*JPS 1917:* His lightnings lighted up the world; the earth saw, and trembled.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1300.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1300/): 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).