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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - בָּרָא
בָּרָא
H1254
Transliteration: bârâʼ
Pronunciation: baw-raw'
Definition: choose
Original: בּרא Transliteration: bârâ' Phonetic: baw-raw'
BDB Definition:
- to create, shape, form
- (Qal) to shape, fashion, create (always with God as subject)
- of heaven and earth
- of individual man
- of new conditions and circumstances
- of transformations
- (Niphal) to be created
- of heaven and earth
- of birth
- of something new
- of miracles
- (Piel)
- to cut down
- to cut out
- (Qal) to shape, fashion, create (always with God as subject)
- to be fat
- (Hiphil) to make yourselves fat