Bârâh — H1262

Definition

verb

to select; to feed; to render clear

1. to eat, consume
1. (Qal) to eat
2. (Piel) for eating, devouring
3. (Hiphil) to cause to eat

Usually translated as

eat, choose, meat, manifest

Origin

a primitive root; to select; also (as denominative from H1250) to feed; also (as equivalent to H1305) to render clear (Ecclesiastes 3:18)

• Derived from Bâr (H1250)
• Derived from Bârar (H1305)

Greek equivalents

• brōsis (G1035)
• eklégomai (G1586)
• esthíō (G2068)
• synesthíō (G4906)
• psōmízō (G5595)

Occurrences

Bârâh occurs 7 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Samuel (1), 2 Samuel (5), Lamentations (1)

• 1 Samuel 17:8 — And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose (בְּרוּ) you a man for you, and let him come down to me.
• 2 Samuel 3:35 — And when all the people came to cause David to eat (לְהַבְר֧וֹת) meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.
• 2 Samuel 12:17 — And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
• 2 Samuel 13:5 — And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give (וְתַבְרֵ֣נִי) me meat, and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it at her hand.
• 2 Samuel 13:6 — So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat (וְאֶבְרֶ֖ה) at her hand.
• 2 Samuel 13:10 — And Amnon said unto Tamar, Bring the meat into the chamber, that I may eat (וְאֶבְרֶ֖ה) of thine hand. And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.
• Lamentations 4:10 — The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat (לְבָרוֹת֙) in the destruction of the daughter of my people.