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title: בַּר — grain · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בַּר (1250), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 13 times: grain. BDB 1906: n.m. grain, corn. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בַּר

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«בַּר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **grain** — 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:** 13 times · **Key:** 1250 · **BDB:** בַּר⁴

### Glosses

grain (10); of.grain (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

grain [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1250/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. grain, corn [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1250/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. grain, corn (cf. Arabic بُرٌّ wheat, grain of wheat), ψ 72:16 Am 5:11; 8:5, 6; בָּר Gn 41:35, 49; 42:3, 25; 45:23 (E) ψ 65:14 Pr 11:26 Je 23:28 Jo 2:24.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (17 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בַּר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1250/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 42:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.42.3/)

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וַיֵּרְד֥וּ אֲחֵֽי־יוֹסֵ֖ף עֲשָׂרָ֑ה לִשְׁבֹּ֥ר בָּ֖ר מִמִּצְרָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and they.went.down the.brothers of.Joseph ten to buy.grain grain from Egypt

*JPS 1917:* And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn from Egypt.

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[Proverbs 11:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.26/)

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מֹ֣נֵֽעַ בָּ֭ר יִקְּבֻ֣הוּ לְא֑וֹם וּ֝בְרָכָ֗ה לְרֹ֣אשׁ מַשְׁבִּֽיר׃

*Word for word:* \[one.who\].withholds grain they curse.him a.people and a.blessing \[belongs\].to.\[the\] head of.\[one.who\].sells.grain

*JPS 1917:* He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him; but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.

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