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Fowl

בַּרְבֻּרִיםStrong’s H1257

barbur (bar-bur)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Barbur is the Hebrew word usually translated “birds”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.”
1 Kings 4:23 KJV
Meaning
  1. (CLBL) fowl, birds
  2. (BDB/TWOT) birds fattened for table of Solomon
How it's translated
  • and birds 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 1 Kings 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    בַּרְבֻּרִים barbur · fowl

    1) (CLBL) fowl, birds 2) (BDB/TWOT) birds fattened for table of Solomon

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “fowl” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    FOWL, noun

    [Latin fugio, fugo, Gr. and signifying the flying animal.]

    1. “Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air” Genesis 1:26
    All definitions and other forms of “fowl”

      FOWL, verb intransitive

      To catch or kill wild fowls for game or food; as by means of bird-lime, decoys, nets and snares, or by pursuing them with hawks, or by shooting.

        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.