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title: בַּעַר — brutishness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בַּעַר (1198), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: brutishness. BDB 1906: n.m. brutishness. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בַּעַר

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«בַּעַר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **brutishness** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 5 times · **Key:** 1198 · **BDB:** בַּ֫עַר

### Glosses

\[am\].stupid (1); \[is\].stupid (1); \[was\].stupid (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

brutishness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1198/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. brutishness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1198/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. brutishness (only poet.)—abs. ב׳ ψ 49:11 + 3 times, בָּ֑עַר Pr 12:1;—in combination, אִישׁ־ב׳ brutish man ψ 92:7 (‖ כסיל); elsewhere ב׳ alone in same sense (concrete) ψ 49:11 (‖ id.), \& as pred. = adj., ψ 73:22 Pr 12:1; 30:2.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בַּעַר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1198/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 12:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.12.1/)

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אֹהֵ֣ב מ֭וּסָראֹ֣הֵֽב דָּ֑עַת וְשֹׂנֵ֖א תוֹכַ֣חַת בָּֽעַר׃

*Word for word:* \[one.who\].loves discipline \[is\].loving knowledge and \[one.who\].hates rebuke \[is\].stupid

*JPS 1917:* Whoso loveth knowledge loveth correction; but he that is brutish hateth reproof.

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[Psalms 73:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.22/)

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וַאֲנִי־בַ֭עַר וְלֹ֣א אֵדָ֑ע בְּ֝הֵמ֗וֹת הָיִ֥יתִי עִמָּֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* and I \[was\].stupid and not I.knew animals I.was with you

*JPS 1917:* But I was brutish, and ignorant; I was as a beast before Thee.

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