Creation
בְּרִיאָהStrong’s H1278beriah (be-ri-ah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Beriah is the Hebrew word usually translated “creation”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.”
Meaning
- A creation, created thing, new thing, marvel
How it's translated
- a creation 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
בְּרִיאָה beriah · creation
a creation, created thing, new thing, marvel
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “creation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CREATION, noun
- The act of creating; the act of causing to exist; and especially, the act of bringing this world into existence. Romans 1:20
- The act of making, by new combinations of matter, invested with new forms and properties, and of subjecting to different laws; the act of shaping and organizing; as the creation of man and other animals, of plants, minerals, etc.
- The act of investing with a new character; as the creation of peers in England.
- The act of producing.
All definitions
- The things created; creatures; the world; the universe.
- Any part of the things created.
- Any thing produced or caused to exist.
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.