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To flash

בָּרַקStrong’s H1299

baraq (ba-raq)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

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

“Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.”
Psalms 144:6 KJV
Meaning
  1. (Qal) to flash lightning, cast forth (lightning)
How it's translated
  • flash 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    בָּרַק baraq · to flash

    (Qal) to flash lightning, cast forth (lightning)

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

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

    FLASH, noun

    1. A sudden burst of light; a flood of light instantaneously appearing and disappearing; as a flash of lightning.
    2. A sudden burst of flame and light; as instantaneous blaze; as the flash of a gun.
    3. A sudden burst, as of wit or merriment; as a flash of wit; a flash of joy or mirth.
    4. A short, transient state.
    All definitions and other forms of “flash”
    1. A body of water driven by violence. [Local.]
    2. A little pool. [Local.]

    FLASH, verb intransitive

    1. To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst or open instantly on the sight, as splendor.
    2. To burst or break forth with a flood of flame and light; as, the powder flashed in the pan.
    3. To burst out into any kind of violence.
    4. To break out, as a sudden expression of wit, merriment or bright thought.

    FLASH, verb transitive

    1. To strike up a body of water from the surface.
    2. To strike or to throw like a burst of light; as, to flash conviction on the mind.

    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.