--- title: בְּרִיחַ — bar · The Tanakh dictionary description: בְּרִיחַ (1280), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 40 times: bar. BDB 1906: n.m. bar. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1280.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [ב](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1489-4.md)‎ / בְּרִיחַ‎ # בְּרִיחַ «בְּרִיחַ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **bar** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers. **Used:** 40 times · **Key:** 1280 · **BDB:** בְּרִיחַ² ### Glosses bars (27); bar\[s\] (5); bar (4) ### Meaning (OSHB) bar [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1280/#m1) ### Meaning (BDB 1906) n.m. bar [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1280/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** n.m. bar (cf. Assyrian burûḫu, spear-shaft, spear, COTGloss)—בְּרִיחַ Dt 3:5 + 11 times (cstr. Am 1:5 etc.); בְּרִיחוֹ Ex 35:11; 39:33 Kt (Qr both ־חָיו needless); pl. בְּרִיחִם Ex 26:26 + 8 times, בְּרִיחִים 2 Ch 14:6, בְּרִיחֵי Ex 36:31 + 3 times, בְּרִיחָ֑יִךְ Na 3:13, בְּרִיחָיו Ex 40:18 + 7 times (+ Qr Ex 35:11; 39:33), בְּרִיחֶיהָ Je 51:30 La 2:9, בְּרִחֶיהָ Jon 2:7, בְּרִיחֶ֑הָ Is 15:5 but cf. infr.;— . bar, of wood, joining boards of tabern. Ex 26:26, 27(×2) 28, 29(×2) 35:11; 36:31, 32(×2), 33, 34(×2); 40:18 Nu 3:36; 4:31 (all P). bar(s) of city-gates Dt 3:5; Ju 16:3; 1 S 23:7; 2 Ch 8:5; 14:6; id. of gates of Jerusalem La 2:9; also (‖ מנעולים) Ne 3:3, 6, 13, 14, 15 cf. ψ 147:13; cf. Am 1:5 Na 3:13; Je 49:31; Ez 38:11 Je 51:30; bars of city-gates, ב׳ נחשׁת 1 K 4:13, ב׳ ברזל Is 45:2 (of Babylon, broken bef. Cyrus); בְּרִיחֶ֑הָ Is 15:5 read prob. c. 𝔗 Di al. בָּר׳ v. בָּרִיחַ; yet cf. Che’s crit. n. fig. ב׳ בַּרְזֶל of distress, etc. ψ 107:16; of fortress, ב׳ אַרְמוֹן in simile Pr 18:19; fig. ב׳ of earth (pictured as house out of which Jonah is shut) Jon 2:7. (Older usage sg. of bar of door or gate, i.e. the great bar across the gate; so Dt 3:5; Ju 16:3; Am 1:5; 1 S 23:7; 1 K 4:13; Je 49:31; Pr 18:19; Jb 38:10; 2 Ch 8:5; Ez 38:11 Later pl. Is 45:2 La 2:9 2 Ch 14:6; Ne 3:3, 6, 13, 14, 15; ψ 147:13, but also Na 3:13.) Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 36 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «בְּרִיחַ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1280/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [Psalms 107:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.16/) כִּֽי־שִׁ֭בַּר דַּלְת֣וֹת נְחֹ֑שֶׁת וּבְרִיחֵ֖י בַרְזֶ֣ל גִּדֵּֽעַ׃ *Word for word:* (dm) he.breaks.down gates of.bronze and bars of.iron he.cuts.down *JPS 1917:* For He hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder. [Proverbs 18:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.18.19/) אָ֗ח נִפְשָׁ֥ע מִקִּרְיַת־עֹ֑ז וּ֝מִדְיָנִ֗ים כִּבְרִ֥יחַ אַרְמֽוֹן׃ *Word for word:* a.brother transgressed \[is\].more than.a.town of.strength and contentions \[are\].like.\[the\] bar of.a.fortress *JPS 1917:* A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. - ← previous: [בִּרְיָה](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1279.md) - next →: [בָּרִיחַ](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1282.md) - ↑ back to [ב](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1489-4.md)