bara · choose, eat

What it means

bara (בָּרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “choose, eat”.

Choose, select. (The same root can also mean "eat".)

How to say it

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. To take food, or give it to another, especially to one in mourning or sick.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• I will eat ×2
• eat ×2
• Choose ×1
• food ×1
• give me ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×5
• Lamentations×1

• 1 Samuel 17:8

  He stood and called to the battle lines of Israel and said to them, “Why do you come out to draw up for war? Am I not the Philistine, and you servants of Saul? Choose for yourselves a man, and let him come down to me.

• 2 Samuel 3:35

  Then all the people came to make David eat bread while it was still day; but David swore, saying, “So may Elohim do to me, and so may he add, if before the sun goes down I taste bread or anything at all.”

• 2 Samuel 12:17

  The elders of his house stood over him to raise him from the ground; but he was not willing, and he did not eat bread with them.

• 2 Samuel 13:5

  Jonadab said to him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend to be ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let Tamar my sister come and give me food to eat, and let her prepare the meal before my eyes, so that I may see it and eat from her hand.’”

• 2 Samuel 13:6

  Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill, and the king came to see him. Amnon said to the king, “Please let Tamar my sister come and make two cakes before my eyes, and I will eat from her hand.”

• 2 Samuel 13:10

  Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the meal into the room, and I will eat from your hand.” Tamar took the cakes that she had made and brought them to Amnon her brother in the room.

• Lamentations 4:10

  The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became food for them in the shattering of the daughter of my people.