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title: בָּרַק — flash · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בָּרַק (1299), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: flash. BDB 1906: vb. flash. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בָּרַק

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«בָּרַק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **flash** — 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:** 1299 · **BDB:** בָּרַק

### Glosses

flash (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

flash [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1299/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. flash [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1299/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. flash, of lightning (Arabic بَرَقَ gleam, flash, lighten, Assyrian barâḳu ZimBP 76, Aramaic בְּרַק, ܒܪܰܩ, Ethiopic በረቀ Sab. ברק Hal252 cf. DHMZMG 1875, 597)— Pf. בָּרַק so read after 𝔊L 2 S 22:15 \& also in ‖ ψ 18:15 (cf. Klo Che crit. n.); Imv. בְּרֹק ψ 144:6;—all c. acc. cogn. בָּרָק, בְּרָקִים;—flash, trans. flash lightning, subj. י׳.

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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 (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 «בָּרַק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1299/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 144:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.144.6/)

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בְּר֣וֹק בָּ֭רָק וּתְפִיצֵ֑ם שְׁלַ֥ח חִ֝צֶּ֗יךָ וּתְהֻמֵּֽם׃

*Word for word:* flash lightning and you will.scatter.them send arrows your and you will.confuse.them

*JPS 1917:* Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; send out Thine arrows, and discomfit them.

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