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title: בַּרְבֻּר — fowl · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בַּרְבֻּר (1257), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: fowl. BDB 1906: n.m.pl. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בַּרְבֻּר

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«בַּרְבֻּר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **fowl** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 1257 · **BDB:** בַּרְבֻּרִים²

### Glosses

birds (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

fowl [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1257/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m.pl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1257/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m.pl. birds fattened for table of Solomon 1 K 5:3; capons Ki, geese (from their pure white feathers) 𝔗 Jer Thes, swans Ew, guinea-hens Th, fowls Tristr. AV RV (ברברי = ינשׁוף water-birds Lv 11:17 𝔗 Sam).

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בַּרְבֻּר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1257/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Kings 5:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.5.3/)

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עֲשָׂרָ֨ה בָקָ֜ר בְּרִאִ֗ים וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים בָּקָ֛ר רְעִ֖י וּמֵ֣אָה צֹ֑אן לְ֠בַד מֵֽאַיָּ֤ל וּצְבִי֙ וְיַחְמ֔וּר וּבַרְבֻּרִ֖ים אֲבוּסִֽים׃

*Word for word:* ten cattle fat and twenty cattle pasture and one.hundred sheep apart from deer and gazelle and roe-deer and birds fattened

*JPS 1917:* ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, beside harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fatted fowl.

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