בָּרִיא

bari · fat

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1277 · appears 13 times in the Bible

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What it means

bari (בָּרִיא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fat”.

Well fed.

How to say it

ba·ri

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. Well-fed, heavy with flesh.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • fat ×9
  • plump ×2
  • fattened ×1
  • fatter ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

  • Genesis 41:2

    And look, from the Nile there came up seven cows, beautiful in appearance and fat in flesh, and they grazed in the reed grass.

  • Genesis 41:4

    The cows ugly in appearance and thin in flesh ate up the seven cows beautiful in appearance and fat. Then Pharaoh woke up.

  • Genesis 41:5

    He fell asleep and dreamed a second time, and look, seven ears of grain were coming up on one stalk, plump and good.

  • Genesis 41:7

    The thin ears swallowed the seven plump and full ears. Then Pharaoh woke up, and look, it was a dream.

  • Genesis 41:18

    and look, from the Nile there came up seven cows, fat in flesh and beautiful in form, and they grazed in the reed grass.

  • Genesis 41:20

    The lean and ugly cows ate up the first seven fat cows.

  • Judges 3:17

    He presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a man very fat.

  • 1 Kings 4:23

    ten fat oxen, and twenty pasture-fed oxen, and a hundred sheep, besides deer, and gazelle, and roebuck, and fattened fowl.

  • Psalms 73:4

    For there are no bonds to their death, and fat is their body.

  • Ezekiel 34:3

    The fat you eat, and with the wool you clothe yourselves; the fattened you butcher; the flock you do not feed.

  • Daniel 1:15

    And at the end of ten days their appearance was seen to be better and fatter in flesh than all the youths who were eating the delicacies of the king.

  • Habakkuk 1:16

    Therefore he sacrifices to his net and offers up in smoke to his dragnet, for by them his portion is rich and his food fat.

  • Zechariah 11:16

    For look, I am raising up a shepherd in the land; those that are disappearing he will not attend to, the straying he will not seek, and the broken he will not heal, the one that stands he will not sustain; but the flesh of the fat he will eat, and their hooves he will tear off.