# H1254 בָּרָא

בָּרָא (bârâʼ), Strong’s H1254: (absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes) KJV: choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat)…

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*bârâʼ* — (absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes)

KJV: choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat).

Occurs 55 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [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

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 1:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=1) — In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
- [Genesis 1:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=21) — God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their…
- [Genesis 1:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=27) — God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
- [Genesis 2:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=3) — God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.
- [Genesis 2:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=4) — This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD…
- [Genesis 5:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/5?v=1) — This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.
- [Genesis 5:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/5?v=2) — He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them Adam.
- [Genesis 6:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=7) — The LORD said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping…
- [Exodus 34:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/34?v=10) — He said, “Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the…
- [Numbers 16:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/16?v=30) — But if the LORD makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up with all that belong to them…