Stupid
בַּ֫עַרStrong’s H1198baar (ba-ar)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Baar is the Hebrew word usually translated “stupid”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.”
Meaning
- Brutishness, stupidity, brutish (person)
How it's translated
- stupid 4
- and a stupid 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 3
- Proverbs 2
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 73:22So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
- Psalms 92:6A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
- Proverbs 12:1Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
- Proverbs 30:2Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
Hebrew dictionary
בַּ֫עַר baar · stupid
brutishness, stupidity, brutish (person)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “stupid” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STUPID, adjective
[Latin, to be stupefied, properly to stop. See Stop.]
- Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish.
- Dull; heavy; formed without skill or genius.
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.