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בַּר

bar · son

Aramaic word · Strong’s number H1247 · appears 8 times in the Bible

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What it means

bar (בַּר) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “son”.

(Aramaic). It is the word that corresponds to the Hebrew "ben".

How to say it

bar

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

  1. Someone's son; also one of a certain kind, like a son of the gods.
  2. Used to give someone's age: so many years old.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • son ×7
  • being about ×1

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Words that come from it

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Ezra 5:1

    And Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo, the prophets, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and in Jerusalem, in the name of the Elah of Israel, who was over them.

  • Ezra 5:2

    Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak rose up and began to build the house of Elah which is in Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets of Elah, supporting them.

  • Ezra 6:14

    And the elders of the Jews were building and prospering through the prophecy of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo; and they built and finished by the order of the Elah of Israel and by the order of Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes king of Persia.

  • Daniel 3:25

    He answered and said, “Look, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and there is no harm in them; and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.”

  • Daniel 5:22

    And you, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, although you knew all this.

  • Daniel 5:31

    And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.

  • Daniel 7:13

    I was looking in the visions of the night, and look, with the clouds of the heavens one like a son of man was coming, and he came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought him near before him.

And 1 more times.