בַּעַר
baar · brutish, stupid
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1198 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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baar (בַּעַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “brutish, stupid”.
A person who does not reason, like an animal. It comes from the word for "cattle".
How to say it
ba·ar
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Unreasoning, like a beast.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- brutish ×2
- dull ×1
- senseless ×1
- stupid ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Psalms 49:10
For he sees the wise die; together the fool and the senseless perish, and leave to others their wealth.
- Psalms 73:22
I was dull and did not know; like a beast I was with you.
- Psalms 92:6
The stupid man does not know, and the foolish does not understand this:
- Proverbs 12:1
Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but whoever hates reproof is brutish.
- Proverbs 30:2
For I am more brutish than any man, and I do not have the understanding of a human being.