To create
בָּרָאStrong’s H1254bara (ba-ra)
Appears in 47 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bara is the Hebrew word usually translated “created”, “about to create” and “have been created”. It appears in 47 verses of the Old Testament.
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
Meaning
- To create, shape, form(Qal) to shape, fashion, create (always with God as subject) · (Niphal) to be created · (Piel)
- To be fat(Hiphil) to make yourselves fat
How it's translated
- he created 4
- created 4
- i created 4
- about to create 4
- and he created 2
- they have been created 2
- and creates 2
- make 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 17
- Genesis 8
- Psalms 6
- Ezekiel 5
- Joshua 2
- Exodus 1
14 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 1:21And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
- Genesis 2:3And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
- Genesis 2:4These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
- Genesis 5:1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
- Genesis 5:2Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
All 47 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
בָּרָא bara · to create
1) to create, shape, form 1a) (Qal) to shape, fashion, create (always with God as subject) 1a1) of heaven and earth 1a2) of individual man 1a3) of new conditions and circumstances 1a4) of transformations 1b) (Niphal) to be created 1b1) of heaven and earth 1b2) of birth 1b3) of something new 1b4) of miracles 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to cut down 1c2) to cut out
בָּרָא bara · to fatten
1) to be fat 1a) (Hiphil) to make yourselves fat
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “create” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CREATE, verb transitive
[Latin]
- To produce; to bring into being from nothing; to cause to exist.“In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth” Genesis 1:1
- To make or form, by investing with a new character; as, to create one a peer or baron; to create a manor.
- To produce; to cause; to be the occasion of.
- To beget; to generate; to bring forth.“The people which shall be created, shall praise the Lord” Psalms 102:18
All definitions
- To make or produce, by new combinations of matter already created, and by investing these combinations with new forms, constitutions and qualities; to shape and organize.“God created man in his own image” Genesis 1:27
- To form anew; to change the state or character; to renew.“CREATE in me a clean heart” Psalms 51:10“We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus” Ephesians 2:10
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.