Son
בַּרStrong’s H1247bar
Appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bar is the Aramaic word usually translated “sons of”, “son of” and “sons his”. It appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus unto him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah, that will make known unto the king the interpretation.”
Meaning
- Son
How it's translated
- sons of 5
- son of 4
- and sons his 2
- people of 2
- and young of 1
- a son of 1
- son his 1
- about a son of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 10
- Ezra 7
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:38In contextAnd wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.
- Daniel 3:25In contextHe answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
- Daniel 5:13In contextThen was Daniel brought in before the king. And the king spake and said unto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, which art of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Jewry?
- Daniel 5:21In contextAnd he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.
- Daniel 5:22In contextAnd thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;
- Daniel 5:31In contextAnd Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.
Aramaic dictionary
בַּר bar · son
son Aramaic of ben (בֵּן ": child" H1121)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “son” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SON, noun
- A male child; the male issue of a parent, father or mother.
- A male descendant, however distant; hence in the plural, sons signifies descendants in general, a sense much used in the Scriptures.
- The compellation of an old man to a young one, or of a confessor to his penitent; a term of affection.
- A native or inhabitant of a country; as the sons of Britain.
All definitions
- The produce of any thing.
- One adopted into a family. Exodus 2:2“Moses was the son of Pharaoh's daughter” Exodus 2:10
- One who is converted by another's instrumentality, is called his son; also, one educated by another; as the sons of the prophets.
- Christ is called the son of God, as being conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit, or in consequence of his relation to the Father.
- son of pride, sons of light, son of Belial.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.