bar · grain

What it means

bar (בָּר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “grain”.

Wheat or another cereal, threshed and clean.

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. Cereal already threshed and cleaned, the basis of bread.
2. Open country, away from houses, where wild animals live.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• grain ×11
• wheat ×2
• open ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×5
• Job×1
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Joel×1
• Amos×3

• Genesis 41:35

  Let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and store up grain under the hand of Pharaoh, as food in the cities, and let them keep it.

• Genesis 41:49

  Joseph stored up grain like the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.

• Genesis 42:3

  So Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

• Genesis 42:25

  Joseph gave orders to fill their containers with grain, and to return their silver, each into his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. And so it was done for them.

• Genesis 45:23

  And to his father he sent as follows: ten donkeys carrying some of the best of Egypt, and ten female donkeys carrying grain, bread, and provisions for his father for the journey.

• Job 39:4

  Their young ones grow strong, they grow up in the open; they go out and do not return to them.

• Psalms 65:13

  The meadows have put on flocks, and the valleys are covered with grain; they shout aloud, and also they sing.

• Psalms 72:16

  May there be abundance of grain in the land, on the top of the mountains; may its fruit wave like Lebanon; and may those of the city flourish like the grass of the earth.

• Proverbs 11:26

  Whoever withholds grain, the people will curse him, but blessing is on the head of the one who sells it.

• Jeremiah 23:28

  The prophet who has a dream, let him tell the dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What has the straw to do with the grain? declares YHWH.

• Joel 2:24

  And the threshing floors will be full of grain, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.

• Amos 5:11

  Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take a levy of grain from him, houses of hewn stone you have built, but you will not live in them; pleasant vineyards you have planted, but you will not drink their wine.

• Amos 8:5

  saying, “When will the new moon be over, so that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath, so that we may open the stores of wheat, to make small the ephah and make great the shekel, and to falsify scales of deceit,

• Amos 8:6

  to buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, and the refuse of the wheat we will sell?”