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title: בָּרָה — eat · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בָּרָה (lemma:בָּרָה), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: eat. BDB 1906: vb. eat. With 1 verse 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 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** lemma:בָּרָה · **BDB:** בָּרָה

### Glosses

commission (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

eat [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b8_5bc_5e8_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. eat [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b8_5bc_5e8_5b8_5d4/#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, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 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/lemma_3a_5d1_5b8_5bc_5e8_5b8_5d4/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Samuel 17:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.8/)

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וַֽיַּעֲמֹ֗ד וַיִּקְרָא֙ אֶל־מַעַרְכֹ֣ת יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לָהֶ֔ם לָ֥מָּה תֵצְא֖וּ לַעֲרֹ֣ךְ מִלְחָמָ֑ה הֲל֧וֹא אָנֹכִ֣י הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֗י וְאַתֶּם֙ עֲבָדִ֣ים לְשָׁא֔וּל בְּרוּ־לָכֶ֥ם אִ֖ישׁ וְיֵרֵ֥ד אֵלָֽי׃

*Word for word:* and he.stood and he.called.out to the.battle.lines of.Israel and he.said to them why? do.you.come.out to deploy battle ? not \[am\].I the Philistine and.\[are\] you? servants of Saul commission for yourselves a.man and let.him.come.down to me

*JPS 1917:* And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them: 'Why do ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.

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