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# בַּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1250

**grain** — 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

grain [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1250/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בַּר⁴: n.m. grain, corn [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1250/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. grain, corn (cf. Arabic بُرٌّ wheat, grain of wheat), ψ 72:16 Am 5:11; 8:5, 6; בָּר Gn 41:35, 49; 42:3, 25; 45:23 (E) ψ 65:14 Pr 11:26 Je 23:28 Jo 2:24.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (17 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: grain (10); of grain (3).

## In the verses

[Genesis 42:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.42.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.42.3/#tree)

וַיֵּרְד֥וּ אֲחֵֽי־יוֹסֵ֖ף עֲשָׂרָ֑ה לִשְׁבֹּ֥ר בָּ֖ר מִמִּצְרָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and they.went.down the.brothers of.Joseph ten to buy.grain grain from Egypt

*JPS 1917:* And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn from Egypt.

[Proverbs 11:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.26/#tree)

מֹ֣נֵֽעַ בָּ֭ר יִקְּבֻ֣הוּ לְא֑וֹם וּ֝בְרָכָ֗ה לְרֹ֣אשׁ מַשְׁבִּֽיר׃

*Word for word:* \[one.who\].withholds grain they curse.him a.people and a.blessing \[belongs\].to.\[the\] head of.\[one.who\].sells.grain

*JPS 1917:* He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him; but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1250.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1250/): 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).