To burn
בָּעַרStrong’s H1197baar (ba-ar)
Appears in 90 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Baar is the Hebrew word usually translated “burning”, “remove” and “it burned”. It appears in 90 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.”
Meaning
- To burn, consume, kindle, be kindled(Qal) · (Piel) · (Hiphil) · (Pual) to burn
- To be stupid, brutish, barbarous(Qal) to be stupid, dull-hearted, unreceptive · (Niphal) to be stupid, dull-hearted · (Piel) to feed, graze · (Hiphil) to cause to be grazed over
How it's translated
- burning 14
- and you will remove 10
- and it burned 5
- and it will burn 4
- they burned 3
- to burn 3
- it burns 3
- i have removed 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 17
- Deuteronomy 16
- Jeremiah 11
- Psalms 8
- Ezekiel 6
- Exodus 5
20 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 3:3And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
- Exodus 22:5If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man’s field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.
- Exodus 22:6If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
- Exodus 35:3Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.
- Leviticus 6:12And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings.
- Numbers 11:1And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.
All 90 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
בָּעַר baar · to burn
: burn/ignite 1) to burn, consume, kindle, be kindled 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to begin to burn, be kindled, start burning 1a2) to burn, be burning 1a3) to burn, consume 1a4) Jehovah's wrath, human wrath (fig.) 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to kindle, burn 1b2) to consume, remove (of guilt) (fig.) 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to kindle 1c2) to burn up 1c3) to consume (destroy) 1d) (Pual) to burn
בָּעַר baar · be brutish
v denom 1) to be stupid, brutish, barbarous 1a) (Qal) to be stupid, dull-hearted, unreceptive 1b) (Niphal) to be stupid, dull-hearted 1c) (Piel) to feed, graze 1d) (Hiphil) to cause to be grazed over
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “burn” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BURN, verb transitive
preterit tense and participle passive burned or burnt. [Latin pruna, and perhaps, furnus, fornaz, a furnace. The primary sense is, to rage, to act with violent excitement.]
- To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; frequently with up; as, to burn up wood.
- To expel the volatile parts and reduce to charcoal by fire; as, to burn wood into coal.
- To cleanse of soot by burning; to inflame; as, to burn a chimney; an extensive use of the word.
- To harden in the fire; to bake or harden by heat; as, to burn bricks or a brick kiln.
All definitions and other forms of “burn”
- To scorch; to affect by heat; as, to burn the clothes or the legs by the fire; to burn meat or bread in cookery.
- To injure by fire; to affect the flesh by heat.
- To dry up or dissipate; with up; as, to burn up tears.
- To dry excessively; to cause to wither by heat; as, the sun burns the grass or plants.
- To heat or inflame; to affect with excessive stimulus; as, ardent spirits burn the stomach.
- To affect with heat in cookery, so as to give the food a disagreeable taste.
- To calcine with heat or fire; to expel the volatile matter from substances, so that they are easily pulverized; as, to burn oyster shells, or lime-stone.
- To affect with excess of heat; as, the fever burns a patient.
- To subject to the action of fire; to heat or dry; as, to burn colors.
BURN, verb intransitive
To be on fire; to flame; as, the mount burned with fire.
- To shine; to sparkle.
- To be inflamed with passion or desire; as, to burn with anger or love.
- To act with destructive violence, as fire.
- To be in commotion; to rage with destructive violence.
- To be heated; to be in a glow; as, the face burns.
- To be affected with a sensation of heat, pain or acidity; as, the heart burns.
- To feel excess of heat; as, the flesh burns by a fire; a patient burns with a fever.
BURN, noun
A hurt or injury of the flesh caused by the action of fire.
- The operation of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.