TBESH · H1262
בָּרָה · ba.rah · to eat
1) to eat, consume 1a) (Qal) to eat 1b) (Piel) for eating, devouring 1c) (Hiphil) to cause to eat
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ba.rah H1262
בָּרָה (ba.rah) means “to eat” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
בָּרָה Hebrew · H1262 6 tagged occurrences in 6 verses
Pronunciation guide: baw-raw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
a primitive root; to select; also (as denominative from H1250 (בָּר)) to feed; also (as equivalent to H1305 (בָּרַר)) to render clear (Ecclesiastes 3:18) to select; to feed; to render clear
KJV glosses: choose, (cause to) eat, manifest, (give) meat.
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How translators render H1262
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| and give me something | 1 |
| choose | 1 |
| so that i may eat | 1 |
| so that i may eat it | 1 |
| their food | 1 |
| to eat | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| that i may eat | 2 |
| and give | 1 |
| choose | 1 |
| not neither did he eat | 1 |
| they were their meat | 1 |
| to cause | 1 |
| to eat | 1 |
Verses containing H1262
Page 1 of 1. 6 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 Samuel 17:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why do you come out and array yourselves for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose one of your men and have him come down against me.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 3:35
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then all the people came and urged David to eat something while it was still day, but David took an oath, saying, “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun sets!”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 13:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Jonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare it in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.’”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 13:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Amnon lay down and feigned illness. When the king came to see him, Amnon said, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, so that I may eat from her hand.”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 13:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the bedroom, so that I may eat it from your hand.” Tamar took the cakes she had made and went to her brother Amnon’s bedroom.
Read word by word - Lamentations 4:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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