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title: בָּרֹד — spotted · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בָּרֹד (1261), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: spotted. BDB 1906: adj. spotted, marked. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בָּרֹד

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«בָּרֹד» in the Tanakh dictionary: **spotted** — 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:** 4 times · **Key:** 1261 · **BDB:** בָּרֹד

### Glosses

mottled (2); \[horses\] (1); dappled (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

spotted [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1261/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. spotted, marked [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1261/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. spotted, marked (as if sprinkled with hail? so Ki cf. LagBN 29; Syriac ܒܳܪܕܳܐ, i.e. grandinatus, grêlé, PS), mpl. of sheep \& goats עֲקֻדִּים נְקֻדִּים וּבְרֻדִּים Gn 31:10, 12; horses Zc 6:3, 6.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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 (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בָּרֹד» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1261/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Zechariah 6:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.6.3/)

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וּבַמֶּרְכָּבָ֥ה הַשְּׁלִשִׁ֖ית סוּסִ֣ים לְבָנִ֑ים וּבַמֶּרְכָּבָה֙ הָרְבִעִ֔ית סוּסִ֥ים בְּרֻדִּ֖ים אֲמֻצִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and.\[were\] with the chariot (the) third horses white and.\[were\] with the chariot (the) fourth horses dappled strong

*JPS 1917:* and in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grizzled bay horses.

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[Zechariah 6:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.6.6/)

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אֲשֶׁר־בָּ֞הּ הַסּוּסִ֣ים הַשְּׁחֹרִ֗ים יֹֽצְאִים֙ אֶל־אֶ֣רֶץ צָפ֔וֹן וְהַלְּבָנִ֔ים יָצְא֖וּ אֶל־אַֽחֲרֵיהֶ֑ם וְהַ֨בְּרֻדִּ֔ים יָצְא֖וּ אֶל־אֶ֥רֶץ הַתֵּימָֽן׃

*Word for word:* which with it the horses (the) black \[they.are\].going.out to \[the\].land of.\[the\].north and the.white \[horses\] they.have.gone.out to after them and the.dappled \[horses\] they.have.gone.out to the.land of the.south

*JPS 1917:* That wherein are the black horses goeth forth toward the north country; and the white went forth after them; and the grizzled went forth toward the south country;

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