{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H1254",
  "lemma": "בָּרָא",
  "transliteration": "bârâʼ",
  "definition": "(absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes)",
  "kjv": "choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat).",
  "occurrences": 55,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[בָּרָא] vb. be fat—Hiph. 1 S 2:29 to make yourself fat.",
    "בָּרָא vb",
    "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"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:1",
      "text": "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:21",
      "text": "God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:27",
      "text": "God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=27"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 2:3",
      "text": "God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 2:4",
      "text": "This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 5:1",
      "text": "This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/5?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 5:2",
      "text": "He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them Adam.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/5?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 6:7",
      "text": "The LORD said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 34:10",
      "text": "He said, “Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/34?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 16:30",
      "text": "But if the LORD makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up with all that belong to them…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/16?v=30"
    }
  ],
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