Strong H12542 sensesבָּרָא
to create · to fatten
- Transliteration
- bârâ'
- Pronunciation
- baw-raw'
The 2 senses of Strong H1254
The lexicon tells 2 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H1254 appears in 46 verses of the KJV, all senses together.
General definition
A primitive root; (absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a {wood}) select 6
feed (as formative processes): - {choose} create ({creator}) cut {down} {dispatch} {do} make (fat).
feed (as formative processes): - {choose} create ({creator}) cut {down} {dispatch} {do} make (fat).
In the Bible
Translated in the KJV by
- create33
- creator3
- make3
- cut2
- choose1
- created1
- createth1
- dispatch1
- do1
First verses
- Genesis 1:1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
- Genesis 1:21And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
- Genesis 2:3And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
- Genesis 2:4These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
- Genesis 5:1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
- Genesis 5:2Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
- Genesis 6:7And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
- Exodus 34:10And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the Lord: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.
- Numbers 16:30But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.
- Deuteronomy 4:32For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
- Joshua 17:15And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
- Joshua 17:18But the mountain shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, and though they be strong.
- 1 Samuel 2:29Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?
- Psalms 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
- Psalms 89:12The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
- Psalms 89:47Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
- Psalms 102:18This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord.
- Psalms 104:30Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
- Psalms 148:5Let them praise the name of the Lord: for he commanded, and they were created.