beriach · bar, bolt

What it means

beriach (בְּרִיחַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bar, bolt”.

Bar, crossbar; also the bolt of a gate.

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. A long beam that holds boards together.
2. The piece that locks a door shut.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• bars ×31
• bar ×9
• fugitives ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×15
• Numbers×2
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Nehemiah×5
• Job×1
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×2
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Amos×1
• Jonah×1
• Nahum×1

• Exodus 26:26

  You shall make bars of acacia wood, five for the boards of one side of the dwelling,

• Exodus 26:27

  and five bars for the boards of the second side of the dwelling, and five bars for the boards of the side of the dwelling at the rear, westward.

• Exodus 26:28

  The middle bar, halfway up the boards, shall run from end to end.

• Exodus 26:29

  You shall overlay the boards with gold and make their rings of gold as holders for the bars, and you shall overlay the bars with gold.

• Exodus 35:11

  the dwelling, its tent and its covering, its clasps and its boards, its bars, its pillars and its bases;

• Exodus 36:31

  And he made bars of acacia wood, five for the boards of the one side of the dwelling,

• Exodus 36:32

  and five bars for the boards of the second side of the dwelling, and five bars for the boards of the dwelling at the rear westward.

• Exodus 36:33

  And he made the middle bar to pass through the middle of the boards from end to end.

• Exodus 36:34

  And the boards he overlaid with gold, and their rings he made of gold, holders for the bars; and he overlaid the bars with gold.

• Exodus 39:33

  And they brought the dwelling to Moses, the tent and all its utensils, its clasps, its boards, its bars, and its pillars, and its bases;

• Exodus 40:18

  And Moses set up the dwelling, and put its bases, and set its boards, and put its bars, and set up its pillars.

• Numbers 3:36

  And the appointed charge of the sons of Merari is the frames of the dwelling, and its bars, and its pillars, and its bases, and all its utensils, and all its service,

• Numbers 4:31

  And this is the charge of their load, for all their service in the tent of meeting: the frames of the dwelling, and its bars, and its pillars, and its bases,

• Deuteronomy 3:5

  All these were cities fortified with a high wall, gates, and bars, besides very many unwalled towns.

• Judges 16:3

  And Samson lay until midnight; then at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city and of the two doorposts, and pulled them up with the bar, and put them on his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the hill that is in front of Hebron.

• 1 Samuel 23:7

  It was told Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, “Elohim has delivered him into my hand, for he has shut himself in by entering a town with gates and bar.”

• 1 Kings 4:13

  Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead; his were Havvoth-jair of Jair son of Manasseh, which is in Gilead; his was the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with wall and bars of bronze;

• 2 Chronicles 8:5

  He built Upper Beth-horon and Lower Beth-horon, fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,

• 2 Chronicles 14:7

  He said to Judah, “Let us build these cities and surround them with wall and towers, doors and bars; the land is still before us, because we have sought YHWH our Elohim; we have sought him, and he has given us rest all around.” So they built and prospered.

• Nehemiah 3:3

  And the Fish Gate the sons of Senaah built; they laid its beams and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars.

• Nehemiah 3:6

  And the Old Gate Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah repaired; they laid its beams and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars.

• Nehemiah 3:13

  The Valley Gate Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired; they built it and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars, and a thousand cubits of the wall, as far as the Dung Gate.

• Nehemiah 3:14

  And the Dung Gate Malchijah the son of Rechab, ruler of the district of Beth-haccherem, repaired; he built it and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars.

• Nehemiah 3:15

  And the Fountain Gate Shallun the son of Col-hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah, repaired; he built it and roofed it and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars, and the wall of the Pool of Shelah by the king’s garden, as far as the stairs that go down from the city of David.

• Job 38:10

  and I imposed on it my limit, and set a bar and doors,

• Psalms 107:16

  For he has broken doors of bronze, and bars of iron he has cut through.

• Psalms 147:13

  For he has strengthened the bars of your gates; he has blessed your children within you.

• Proverbs 18:19

  A brother offended is harder to win than a city of strength, and strife is like the bar of a citadel.

• Isaiah 15:5

  My heart cries out for Moab; its fugitives as far as Zoar, Eglath-shelishiyah; for the ascent of Luhith, with weeping they go up it; for on the road of Horonaim they raise a cry of shattering.

• Isaiah 45:2

  “I will go before you and make straight the twisted places; doors of bronze I will break, and bars of iron I will cut through;

• Jeremiah 49:31

  Rise up, go up against a nation at ease, that dwells in security, declares YHWH, that has no doors and no bar; they dwell alone.

• Jeremiah 51:30

  The mighty men of Babylon have ceased to fight; they remain in the strongholds; their might has failed; they have become women; they have set on fire her dwellings; her bars are broken.

• Lamentations 2:9

  Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars; her king and her princes are among the nations; there is no instruction; even her prophets do not find a vision from YHWH.

• Ezekiel 38:11

  and you will say, “I will go up against a land of unwalled towns; I will come against those at ease, who live securely, all of them living without wall, and bar and doors they do not have,”

• Amos 1:5

  And I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, and the one who holds the scepter from Beth-eden; and the people of Aram will go into exile to Kir, says YHWH.

• Jonah 2:6

  To the roots of the mountains I went down; the earth, its bars closed behind me forever; but you brought up my life from the pit, YHWH my Elohim.

• Nahum 3:13

  Look, your people are women in your midst; to your enemies the gates of your land are opened wide; fire devours your bars.

And 4 more times.