Strong's Hebrew · H1254
H1254 bârâʼ
בָּרָא
baw-raw'
to create
Looking for Greek G1254 diakōlýō? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H1254. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
bârâʼ appears 55 times in Scripture, including Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:21. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
(absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes)
In the King James Version
choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat).
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 55 times in Scripture
“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.”
“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.”
“Male and female He created them, and He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them “man.””
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
“This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made them.”
“So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.”
“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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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
