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title: ברר — purify · The Tanakh dictionary
description: ברר (952), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: purify. BDB 1906: vb. make clear, clear up, explain. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# ברר

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«ברר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **purify** — 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:** 952 · **BDB:** בּוּר

### Glosses

make.clear (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

purify [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/952/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. make clear, clear up, explain [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/952/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. Inf. cstr. לָבוּר Ec 9:1 (c. acc.); prob. (si vera l.) make clear, clear up, explain (VB; so sometimes, in NH ברר q.v.) but read perhaps וְלִבִּי רָאָה 𝔊 𝔖 Bi; or לָתוּר Gr, cf. 1:13; 2:3; 7:25.

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «ברר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/952/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ecclesiastes 9:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.9.1/)

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כִּ֣י אֶת־כָּל־זֶ֞ה נָתַ֤תִּי אֶל־לִבִּי֙ וְלָב֣וּר אֶת־כָּל־זֶ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר הַצַּדִּיקִ֧ים וְהַחֲכָמִ֛ים וַעֲבָדֵיהֶ֖ם בְּיַ֣ד הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים גַּֽם־אַהֲבָ֣ה גַם־שִׂנְאָ֗ה אֵ֤ין יוֹדֵ֙עַ֙ הָֽאָדָ֔ם הַכֹּ֖ל לִפְנֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* (dm) (et) all this I.have.given to heart my and to make.clear (et) all this (cmp) the righteous and the wise and deeds their \[are\].in the.hand of.(the) God both love as.well.as hatred not \[is\].knowing (the) humankind (the) everything \[is\] before them

*JPS 1917:* For all this I laid to my heart, even to make clear all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it be love or hatred, man knoweth it not; all is before them.

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