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בָּרָה

«בָּרָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: eat — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

Used: 6 times · Key: 1262 · BDB: בָּרָה

Glosses

that.I.may.eat (2); eating (1); he.ate (1)

Meaning (OSHB)

eat tree →

Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. eat tree →

The whole BDB entry

vb. eat (Assyrian barû & deriv. ZimBP 31) Pf. 2 S 12:17 בָּרָה; Impf. אֶבְרֶה 2 S 13:6, 10 eat bread (בְּרוּ־לָכֶם 1 S 17:8 scribal error for בחדו לכם 1 K 18:25 DrSm 107). Inf. לְבָרוֹת La 4:10 for devouring. Impf. תַּבְרֵנִי 2 S 13:5; Inf. לְהַבְרוֹת 2 S 3:35 cause to eat bread.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

Trees and pragmatics

Every English meaning of «בָּרָה» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

In the verses

Lamentations 4:10

יְדֵ֗י נָשִׁים֙ רַחֲמָ֣נִיּ֔וֹת בִּשְּׁל֖וּ יַלְדֵיהֶ֑ן הָי֤וּ לְבָרוֹת֙ לָ֔מוֹ בְּשֶׁ֖בֶר בַּת־עַמִּֽי׃ס

Word for word: [the].hands of.women compassionate they.have.boiled children their.own they.have.been for eating for them in the.brokenness of.the.daughter my.people my

JPS 1917: The hands of women full of compassion have sodden their own children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

2 Samuel 12:17

וַיָּקֻ֜מוּ זִקְנֵ֤י בֵיתוֹ֙ עָלָ֔יו לַהֲקִימ֖וֹ מִן־הָאָ֑רֶץ וְלֹ֣א אָבָ֔ה וְלֹֽא־בָרָ֥א אִתָּ֖ם לָֽחֶם׃

Word for word: and they.stood the.elders his.house his with him to raise him from the ground and not he.was.willing and not he.ate with them food

JPS 1917: And the elders of his house arose, and stood beside him, to raise him up from the earth; but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.

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