barak · lightning

What it means

barak (בָּרָק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lightning”.

Also the flash of a sword.

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. The sudden light that flashes across the sky in a storm.
2. The flash of a sword.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• lightning ×17
• lightnings ×4

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×5
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×4
• Daniel×1
• Nahum×2
• Habakkuk×1
• Zechariah×1

• Exodus 19:16

  On the third day, when morning came, there were thunders and lightnings and a heavy cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a horn, very loud; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.

• Deuteronomy 32:41

  if I sharpen the lightning of my sword and my hand takes hold of judgment, I will return vengeance to my adversaries and repay those who hate me.

• 2 Samuel 22:15

  He sent out arrows and scattered them, lightning, and threw them into confusion.

• Job 20:25

  He draws it out, and it comes out from his back, and the lightning goes from his gall; upon him are terrors.

• Job 38:35

  Can you send out lightnings, so that they go and say to you, ‘Here we are’?

• Psalms 18:14

  He sent out his arrows and scattered them, and many lightning bolts, and threw them into confusion.

• Psalms 77:18

  The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind; the lightning flashes lit up the world; the earth shuddered and quaked.

• Psalms 97:4

  His lightnings lit up the world; the earth saw and trembled.

• Psalms 135:7

  He who brings up clouds from the end of the earth; lightnings for the rain he made; who brings out the wind from his storehouses;

• Psalms 144:6

  Flash lightning, and scatter them; send your arrows, and rout them.

• Jeremiah 10:13

  When he gives his voice, there is a roar of waters in the heavens, and he makes rise the clouds from the end of the earth; lightning for the rain he makes, and he brings out the wind from his storehouses.

• Jeremiah 51:16

  When he gives his voice, there is a roar of waters in the heavens, and he makes rise the clouds from the end of the earth; lightning for the rain he makes, and he brings out the wind from his storehouses.

• Ezekiel 1:13

  And as for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches; it moved back and forth among the living creatures, and the fire had brightness, and from the fire went out lightning.

• Ezekiel 21:10

  To slaughter a slaughter it is sharpened; so that it may have lightning it is polished. Or shall we rejoice? The scepter of my son despises every tree.

• Ezekiel 21:15

  so that the heart may melt and the stumbling blocks may multiply; against all their gates I have set the brandishing of the sword. Ah! It is made for lightning, honed for slaughter.

• Ezekiel 21:28

  “And you, son of man, prophesy and say: ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH concerning the sons of Ammon and concerning their reproach. And say: A sword, a sword drawn for slaughter, polished to consume, so that it may have lightning,

• Daniel 10:6

  and his body was like chrysolite, and his face like the appearance of lightning, and his eyes like torches of fire, and his arms and his feet like the gleam of burnished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a multitude.

• Nahum 2:4

  In the streets the chariots go mad, they jostle one another in the squares; their appearance is like torches, like lightning flashes they run.

• Nahum 3:3

  horseman charging, and flame of sword, and lightning of spear, and a multitude of the pierced, and a mass of corpses, and there is no end to the bodies; they stumble over their bodies,

• Habakkuk 3:11

  The sun, the moon stood still in their lofty dwelling; at the light of your arrows they go to and fro, at the brightness of the lightning of your spear.

• Zechariah 9:14

  And YHWH will appear over them, and his arrow will go out like the lightning; and Adonai YHWH will blow the horn, and will go in the whirlwinds of the south.