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ba.ra H1254

בָּרָא (ba.ra) means “to create” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

בָּרָא Hebrew · H1254 55 tagged occurrences in 47 verses

Pronunciation guide: baw-raw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H1254A

בָּרָא · ba.ra · to create

1) to create, shape, form 1a) (Qal) to shape, fashion, create (always with God as subject) 1a1) of heaven and earth 1a2) of individual man 1a3) of new conditions and circumstances 1a4) of transformations 1b) (Niphal) to be created 1b1) of heaven and earth 1b2) of birth 1b3) of something new 1b4) of miracles 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to cut down 1c2) to cut out

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TBESH · H1254B

בָּרָא · ba.ra · to fatten

1) to be fat 1a) (Hiphil) to make yourselves fat

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

a primitive root; (absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes)

KJV glosses: choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat).

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How translators render H1254

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
created 7
create 3
and create 2
and created 2
have created 2
he created 2
i will create 2
the creator 2
they are created 2
you were created 2
and clear 1
and make 1
and they were created 1
been done 1
bringing 1
brings about 1
by fattening yourselves 1
clear it 1
create us 1
down 1
eat 1
has created 1
has created it 1
have created it 1
he created them 1
he who created 1
he who created you 1
i have created 1
not yet created 1
of creation 1
of your creation 1
they were created 1
when they were created 1
who created 1
who creates 1
will create 1
you have created 1
your creator 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
created 10
and create 2
for behold i create 2
hath created 2
that created 2
that thou wast created 2
the creator 2
they are created 2
when they were created 2
above me to make yourselves fat 1
and choose 1
and created 1
and createth 1
and cut down 1
and dispatch 1
and i have created 1
and they were created 1
and thou shalt cut it down 1
behold i have created 1
choose 1
create 1
for i have created 1
have created 1
he that created 1
i create 1
it he created 1
make 1
my time is wherefore hast thou made 1
now thy creator 1
such as have not been done 1
thou hast created 1
where thou wast created 1
which i create 1
which shall be created 1
who hath created 1
whom i have created 1
will create 1

Verses containing H1254

Page 1 of 1. 47 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Genesis 1:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

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  2. Genesis 1:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every winged bird after its kind. And God saw that it was good.

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  3. Genesis 1:27 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

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  4. Genesis 2:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.

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  5. Genesis 2:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made them.

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  6. Genesis 5:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness.

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  7. Genesis 5:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Male and female He created them, and He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them “man.”

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  8. Genesis 6:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”

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  9. Exodus 34:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And the LORD said, “Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will perform wonders that have never been done in any nation in all the world. All the people among whom you live will see the LORD’s work, for it is an awesome thing that I am doing with you.

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  10. Numbers 16:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them and all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt.”

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  11. Deuteronomy 4:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Indeed, ask now from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you, from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great as this ever happened or been reported?

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  12. Joshua 17:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Joshua answered them, “If you have so many people that the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you, go to the forest and clear for yourself an area in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim.”

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  13. Joshua 17:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    because the hill country will be yours as well. It is a forest; clear it, and its farthest limits will be yours. Although the Canaanites have iron chariots and although they are strong, you can drive them out.”

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  14. 1 Samuel 2:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Why then do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of all the offerings of My people Israel.’

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  15. 2 Samuel 12:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The elders of his household stood beside him to help him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat anything with them.

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  16. Psalms 51:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

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    Source alternate reference: 51.12

  17. Psalms 89:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    North and south You created; Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at Your name.

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    Source alternate reference: 89.13

  18. Psalms 89:47 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!

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    Source alternate reference: 89.48

  19. Psalms 102:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Let this be written for the generation to come, so that a people not yet created may praise the LORD.

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    Source alternate reference: 102.19

  20. Psalms 104:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When You send Your Spirit, they are created, and You renew the face of the earth.

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  21. Psalms 148:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Let them praise the name of the LORD, for He gave the command and they were created.

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  22. Ecclesiastes 12:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”

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  23. Isaiah 4:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a canopy,

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  24. Isaiah 40:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Lift up your eyes on high: Who created all these? He leads forth the starry host by number; He calls each one by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.

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  25. Isaiah 40:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching out.

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  26. Isaiah 41:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    so that all may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the LORD has done this and the Holy One of Israel has created it.”

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  27. Isaiah 42:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This is what God the LORD says—He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:

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  28. Isaiah 43:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But now, this is what the LORD says—He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine!

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  29. Isaiah 43:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made.”

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  30. Isaiah 43:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, and your King.”

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  31. Isaiah 45:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.

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  32. Isaiah 45:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Drip down, O heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open up that salvation may sprout and righteousness spring up with it; I, the LORD, have created it.

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  33. Isaiah 45:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    It is I who made the earth and created man upon it. It was My hands that stretched out the heavens, and I ordained all their host.

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  34. Isaiah 45:18 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens—He is God; He formed the earth and fashioned it; He established it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.

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  35. Isaiah 48:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They are created now, and not long ago; you have not heard of them before today. So you cannot claim, ‘I already knew them!’

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  36. Isaiah 54:16 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Behold, I have created the craftsman who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its task; and I have created the destroyer to wreak havoc.

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  37. Isaiah 57:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    bringing praise to their lips. Peace, peace to those far and near,” says the LORD, “and I will heal them.”

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  38. Isaiah 65:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.

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  39. Isaiah 65:18 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight.

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  40. Jeremiah 31:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    How long will you wander, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the land—a woman will shelter a man.”

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  41. Ezekiel 21:19 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    “Now you, son of man, mark out two roads for the sword of the king of Babylon to take, both starting from the same land. And make a signpost where the road branches off to each city.

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    Source alternate reference: 21.24

  42. Ezekiel 21:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Return the sword to its sheath! In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.

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    Source alternate reference: 21.35

  43. Ezekiel 23:47 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses.

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  44. Ezekiel 28:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the day of your creation.

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  45. Ezekiel 28:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    From the day you were created you were blameless in your ways—until wickedness was found in you.

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  46. Amos 4:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”

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  47. Malachi 2:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then do we break faith with one another so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?

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