בָּרָה
Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1262
Meaning
OpenScriptures lexical index
eat tree →
Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906
בָּרָה: vb. eat tree →
The whole BDB entry
vb. eat (Assyrian barû & deriv. ZimBP 31) Pf. 2 S 12:17 בָּרָה; Impf. אֶבְרֶה 2 S 13:6, 10 eat bread (בְּרוּ־לָכֶם 1 S 17:8 scribal error for בחדו לכם 1 K 18:25 DrSm 107). Inf. לְבָרוֹת La 4:10 for devouring. Impf. תַּבְרֵנִי 2 S 13:5; Inf. לְהַבְרוֹת 2 S 3:35 cause to eat bread.
Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)
Glosses
MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: that I may eat (2); eating (1); he ate (1).
In the verses
יְדֵ֗י נָשִׁים֙ רַחֲמָ֣נִיּ֔וֹת בִּשְּׁל֖וּ יַלְדֵיהֶ֑ן הָי֤וּ לְבָרוֹת֙ לָ֔מוֹ בְּשֶׁ֖בֶר בַּת־עַמִּֽי׃ס
Word for word: [the].hands of.women compassionate they.have.boiled children their.own they.have.been for eating for them in the.brokenness of.the.daughter my.people my
JPS 1917: The hands of women full of compassion have sodden their own children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
וַיָּקֻ֜מוּ זִקְנֵ֤י בֵיתוֹ֙ עָלָ֔יו לַהֲקִימ֖וֹ מִן־הָאָ֑רֶץ וְלֹ֣א אָבָ֔ה וְלֹֽא־בָרָ֥א אִתָּ֖ם לָֽחֶם׃
Word for word: and they.stood the.elders his.house his with him to raise him from the ground and not he.was.willing and not he.ate with them food
JPS 1917: And the elders of his house arose, and stood beside him, to raise him up from the earth; but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
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