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title: בְּרִיאָה — a creation · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בְּרִיאָה (1278), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: a creation. BDB 1906: n.f. creation, thing created Qal Niph. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בְּרִיאָה

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«בְּרִיאָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **a creation** — 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:** 1278 · **BDB:** בְּרִיאָה

### Glosses

a.creation (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

a creation [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1278/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. creation, thing created Qal Niph. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1278/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. a creation, thing created, as preternatural, unparalleled; acc. cogn. אִם־ב׳ יִבְרָא י׳ Nu 16:30, cf. בָּרָא Qal 3, Niph. 3.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בְּרִיאָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1278/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 16:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.16.30/)

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וְאִם־בְּרִיאָ֞ה יִבְרָ֣א יְהוָ֗ה וּפָצְתָ֨ה הָאֲדָמָ֤ה אֶת־פִּ֙יהָ֙ וּבָלְעָ֤ה אֹתָם֙ וְאֶת־כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֣ר לָהֶ֔ם וְיָרְד֥וּ חַיִּ֖ים שְׁאֹ֑לָה וִֽידַעְתֶּ֕ם כִּ֧י נִֽאֲצ֛וּ הָאֲנָשִׁ֥ים הָאֵ֖לֶּה אֶת־יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and if a.creation he.will.create Yahweh and it.will.open the ground (et) mouth its and it.will.swallow them and (et) all that \[belongs\].to them and they.will.go.down alive Sheol to and you.will.know (dm).that they.have.spurned the men (the) these (et) Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* But if the LORD make a new thing, and the ground open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down alive into the pit, then ye shall understand that these men have despised the LORD.'

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