To eat
בָּרָהStrong’s H1262barah (ba-rah)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Barah is the Hebrew word usually translated “so i may eat”, “commission” and “make to eat”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.”
Meaning
- To eat, consume(Qal) to eat · (Piel) for eating, devouring · (Hiphil) to cause to eat
How it's translated
- so i may eat 2
- commission 1
- to make to eat 1
- and let her cause to eat me 1
- for eating 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 4
- 1 Samuel 1
- Lamentations 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 3:35And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.
- 2 Samuel 13:5And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat, and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it at her hand.
- 2 Samuel 13:6So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand.
- 2 Samuel 13:10And Amnon said unto Tamar, Bring the meat into the chamber, that I may eat of thine hand. And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.
- Lamentations 4:10The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Hebrew dictionary
בָּרָה barah · to eat
1) to eat, consume 1a) (Qal) to eat 1b) (Piel) for eating, devouring 1c) (Hiphil) to cause to eat
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “eat” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EAT, verb transitive
preterit tense ate; participle passive eat or eaten. [Latin edo, esse, esum.]
- To bite or chew and swallow, as food.“They shall make thee to eat grass as oxen” Daniel 4:25
- To corrode; to wear away; to separate parts of a thing gradually, as an animal by gnawing.
- To consume; to waste.“When goods increase, they are increased that eat them” Ecclesiastes 5:11
- To enjoy.“If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land” Isaiah 1:19
All definitions and other forms of “eat”
- To consume; to oppress.“Who eat up my people as they eat bread” Psalms 14:4
- To feast.
EAT, verb intransitive
To take food; to feed; to take a meal, or to board.
- “Why eateth your master with publicans and sinners” Matthew 9:11
- To take food; to be maintained in food.“Their word will eat as doth a canker” 2 Timothy 2:17
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.