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# ברר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H952

**purify** — 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

purify [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/952/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בּוּר: vb. make clear, clear up, explain [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/952/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. Inf. cstr. לָבוּר Ec 9:1 (c. acc.); prob. (si vera l.) make clear, clear up, explain (VB; so sometimes, in NH ברר q.v.) but read perhaps וְלִבִּי רָאָה 𝔊 𝔖 Bi; or לָתוּר Gr, cf. 1:13; 2:3; 7:25.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: make clear (1).

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 9:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.9.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.9.1/#tree)

כִּ֣י אֶת־כָּל־זֶ֞ה נָתַ֤תִּי אֶל־לִבִּי֙ וְלָב֣וּר אֶת־כָּל־זֶ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר הַצַּדִּיקִ֧ים וְהַחֲכָמִ֛ים וַעֲבָדֵיהֶ֖ם בְּיַ֣ד הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים גַּֽם־אַהֲבָ֣ה גַם־שִׂנְאָ֗ה אֵ֤ין יוֹדֵ֙עַ֙ הָֽאָדָ֔ם הַכֹּ֖ל לִפְנֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* (dm) (et) all this I.have.given to heart my and to make.clear (et) all this (cmp) the righteous and the wise and deeds their \[are\].in the.hand of.(the) God both love as.well.as hatred not \[is\].knowing (the) humankind (the) everything \[is\] before them

*JPS 1917:* For all this I laid to my heart, even to make clear all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it be love or hatred, man knoweth it not; all is before them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/952.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/952/): 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).