בָּעַר
baar · burn, graze
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1197 · appears 94 times in the Bible
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baar (בָּעַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “burn, graze”.
Burn, be kindled; set on fire. Also, of livestock, eat up a field by grazing; and be stupid, brutish.
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
- For fire to be lit, or to make something be consumed in flames.
- To wipe out completely: "purge the evil".
- To let livestock graze a field.
- Another word spelled the same: to be stupid, brutish.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Word study
To burn, be kindled, set on fire. In another form, to remove, to clear away completely (like fire that consumes). Another verb of the same form means to be stupid, like an animal, and another, to let graze. BDB: to kindle, consume; from there, to graze (eat up the pasture) or to be brutish.
- The bush that was burning and was not consumed Exodus 3:2Exodus 3:3
- The fire of YHWH blazed Numbers 11:3
- “You shall remove the evil from among you” Deuteronomy 13:5
- Letting livestock graze in another's field Exodus 22:5
- Stupid: “Understand, you stupid ones among the people” Psalms 94:8
Historical and cultural background
The name Taberah (‘burning’) is explained with this verb: “because the fire of YHWH blazed among them” (Numbers 11:3).
How we translate it
“You shall remove” 10 times, in the Deuteronomy formula “So you shall remove the evil from among you” (Deuteronomy 13:5); with the holy portion it is also “remove” (“I have removed the holy portion”, Deuteronomy 26:13). “Burn” 16, “burning” 13, “burned” 9, “blazed” 6 when it is fire; “has become dull” 2 and “stupid ones” in the other sense (Psalm 94:8); “grazes” in the law of the field (Exodus 22:5).
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- burn ×16
- burning ×13
- you shall remove ×10
- burned ×9
- blazed ×6
- burns ×4
- they will make fires ×3
- I will sweep away ×2
- consuming ×2
- has become dull ×2
- others ×27
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Exodus×6
- Leviticus×1
- Numbers×3
- Deuteronomy×16
- Judges×4
- 2 Samuel×3
- 1 Kings×5
- 2 Kings×1
- 2 Chronicles×4
- Nehemiah×1
- Esther×1
- Job×1
- Psalms×8
- Isaiah×17
- Jeremiah×11
- Lamentations×1
- Ezekiel×7
- Hosea×2
- Nahum×1
- Malachi×1
- Exodus 3:2
The angel of YHWH appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of the bush. He looked, and look, the bush was burning with fire, yet the bush was not consumed.
- Exodus 3:3
And Moses said, “Let me turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn up.”
- Exodus 22:5
When a man lets a field or a vineyard be grazed over, and lets loose his livestock and it grazes in another's field, he shall repay from the best of his field and the best of his vineyard.
- Exodus 22:6
When fire breaks out and catches thorns, so that stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed, the one who kindled the fire shall surely repay.
- Exodus 35:3
You shall not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.”
- Leviticus 6:12
The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it; it shall not go out. The priest shall burn wood on it every morning, arrange the burnt offering on it, and offer up in smoke on it the fat of the peace offerings.
- Numbers 11:1
And the people became like those who complain of misfortune in the ears of YHWH; and YHWH heard and his anger burned, and the fire of YHWH blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.
- Numbers 11:3
And the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of YHWH blazed among them.
- Numbers 24:22
nevertheless, Cain shall be for burning. How long until Asshur takes you captive?”
- Deuteronomy 4:11
You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire to the heart of the heavens: darkness, cloud, and thick cloud.
- Deuteronomy 5:23
When you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders,
- Deuteronomy 9:15
So I turned and came down from the mountain, while the mountain was burning with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.
- Deuteronomy 13:5
But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken turning aside against YHWH your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slaves, to drag you away from the way in which YHWH your Elohim commanded you to walk. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
- Deuteronomy 17:7
The hand of the witnesses shall be against him first to put him to death, and the hand of all the people afterward. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
- Deuteronomy 17:12
And the man who acts with arrogance so as not to listen to the priest who stands to minister there to YHWH your Elohim, or to the judge, that man shall die. So you shall remove the evil from Israel.
- Deuteronomy 19:13
Your eye shall not pity him, and you shall remove the innocent blood from Israel, so that it may go well with you.
- Deuteronomy 19:19
then you shall do to him as he planned to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
- Deuteronomy 21:9
So you shall remove the innocent blood from among you, for you shall do what is right in the eyes of YHWH.
- Deuteronomy 21:21
Then all the men of his city shall stone him with stones so that he dies. So you shall remove the evil from among you, and all Israel shall hear and fear.
- Deuteronomy 22:21
then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones so that she dies, because she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by prostituting herself in her father’s house. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
- Deuteronomy 22:22
If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall remove the evil from Israel.
- Deuteronomy 22:24
then you shall bring out both of them to the gate of that city and stone them with stones so that they die: the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he humiliated his neighbor’s wife. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
- Deuteronomy 24:7
If a man is found stealing a person from his brothers, from the sons of Israel, and he treats him as a slave and sells him, then that thief shall die. So you shall remove the evil from your midst.
- Deuteronomy 26:13
then you shall say before YHWH your Elohim, “I have removed the holy portion from the house, and I have also given it to the Levite and to the resident alien, to the orphan, and to the widow, according to all your commandment that you commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, nor have I forgotten.
- Deuteronomy 26:14
I have not eaten of it in my mourning, nor have I removed any of it while unclean, nor have I given any of it for the dead. I have listened to the voice of YHWH my Elohim; I have done according to all that you commanded me.
- Judges 15:5
He set fire to the torches and let them loose into the standing grain of the Philistines, and he burned up from the stacked grain to the standing grain and to the olive groves.
- Judges 15:14
He came as far as Lehi, and the Philistines shouted in triumph to meet him. And the spirit of YHWH came powerfully upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became like flax that has burned in fire, and his bonds melted from off his hands.
- Judges 20:13
Now hand over the perverse men who are in Gibeah, so that we may put them to death and purge the evil from Israel.” But the sons of Benjamin were not willing to listen to the voice of their brothers, the sons of Israel.
- 2 Samuel 4:11
How much more when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed! And now, shall I not require his blood from your hand and remove you from the earth?”
- 2 Samuel 22:9
Smoke went up from his nostrils, and fire from his mouth devoured; coals blazed from him.
- 2 Samuel 22:13
From the brightness before him coals of fire blazed.
- 1 Kings 14:10
therefore, look, I am bringing evil on the house of Jeroboam, and I will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates against the wall, restrained and left in Israel; and I will sweep away after the house of Jeroboam, as one sweeps away dung, until it is gone.
- 1 Kings 16:3
look, I am sweeping away after Baasha and after his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat.
- 1 Kings 21:21
‘Look, I am bringing evil on you, and I will sweep away after you, and I will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against the wall, restrained and left in Israel;
- 1 Kings 22:46
And the rest of the sacred prostitutes who remained in the days of Asa his father, he swept away from the land.
- 2 Kings 23:24
Moreover, those who call up the dead and the spiritists, the teraphim, the idols, and all the detestable things that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah purged, in order to confirm the words of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of YHWH.
- 2 Chronicles 4:20
the lampstands and their lamps, to burn according to the rule before the inner sanctuary, of fine gold;
- 2 Chronicles 13:11
They offer up in smoke to YHWH burnt offerings every morning and every evening, and fragrant incense; they set the row of bread on the pure table, and the lampstand of gold with its lamps to burn every evening; for we keep the charge of YHWH our Elohim, but you have abandoned him.
- 2 Chronicles 19:3
But good things are found in you, for you have removed the Asherahs from the land and have set your heart to seek Elohim.”
- 2 Chronicles 28:3
He burned incense in the Valley of Ben-hinnom and burned his sons in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom YHWH had dispossessed before the sons of Israel.
And 54 more times.