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בָּרָא H1254

bârâʼ

baw-raw'

a primitive root; (absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes); choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat).

Brown–Driver–Briggs

[בָּרָא] vb. be fat—Hiph. 1 S 2:29 to make yourself fat.
בָּרָא 53 vb. shape, create
Qal Pf.—shape, fashion, create
Niph.—Pass.
1 be created
2 with reference to birth
3 of something new, astonishing
Pi.
1 cut down
2 cut out

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.

46 occurrences

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • Genesis 1:1
    In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
  • Genesis 1:21
    And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
  • Genesis 1:27
    So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
  • Genesis 2:3
    And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
  • Genesis 2:4
    These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
  • Genesis 5:1
    This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
  • Genesis 5:2
    Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
  • Genesis 6:7
    And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
  • Exodus 34:10
    And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.
  • Numbers 16:30
    But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.