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title: בָּרָה — eat · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בָּרָה (1262), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 6 times: eat. BDB 1906: vb. eat. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בָּרָה

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«בָּרָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **eat** — 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:** 6 times · **Key:** 1262 · **BDB:** בָּרָה

### Glosses

that.I.may.eat (2); eating (1); he.ate (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

eat [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1262/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. eat [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1262/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. eat (Assyrian barû \& deriv. ZimBP 31) Pf. 2 S 12:17 בָּרָה; Impf. אֶבְרֶה 2 S 13:6, 10 eat bread (בְּרוּ־לָכֶם 1 S 17:8 scribal error for בחדו לכם 1 K 18:25 DrSm 107). Inf. לְבָרוֹת La 4:10 for devouring. Impf. תַּבְרֵנִי 2 S 13:5; Inf. לְהַבְרוֹת 2 S 3:35 cause to eat bread.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בָּרָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1262/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Lamentations 4:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.4.10/)

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יְדֵ֗י נָשִׁים֙ רַחֲמָ֣נִיּ֔וֹת בִּשְּׁל֖וּ יַלְדֵיהֶ֑ן הָי֤וּ לְבָרוֹת֙ לָ֔מוֹ בְּשֶׁ֖בֶר בַּת־עַמִּֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* \[the\].hands of.women compassionate they.have.boiled children their.own they.have.been for eating for them in the.brokenness of.the.daughter my.people my

*JPS 1917:* The hands of women full of compassion have sodden their own children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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[2 Samuel 12:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.12.17/)

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וַיָּקֻ֜מוּ זִקְנֵ֤י בֵיתוֹ֙ עָלָ֔יו לַהֲקִימ֖וֹ מִן־הָאָ֑רֶץ וְלֹ֣א אָבָ֔ה וְלֹֽא־בָרָ֥א אִתָּ֖ם לָֽחֶם׃

*Word for word:* and they.stood the.elders his.house his with him to raise him from the ground and not he.was.willing and not he.ate with them food

*JPS 1917:* And the elders of his house arose, and stood beside him, to raise him up from the earth; but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.

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