בָּרָק
Used: 21 times · Key: 1300 · BDB: בָּרָק
Glosses
lightning (8); lightning.flashes (7); flashes (2)
Meaning (OSHB)
lightning tree →
Meaning (BDB 1906)
n.m. lightning tree →
The whole BDB entry
n.m. Ez 1:13 lightning (chiefly in poetry) (Arabic بَرْقٌ, Assyrian birḳu COTGloss, ZimBP 76, 82 Aramaic בְּרַק, ܒܰܪܩܳܐ )—abs. ב׳ Jb 20:25 + 7 times + 2 S 22:15 (cf. infr.); cstr. בְּרַק Dt 32:41 + 2 times; pl. בְּרָקִים Ex 19:16 + 7 times, בְּרָקָיו ψ 97:4;—lightning, lit. mostly pl. = lightnings, lightning-flashes Ex 19:16 ψ 18:15 (in theoph., on 2 S 22:15 v. infr.) 77:19; 97:4; 135:7 Jb 38:35 Je 10:13; 51:16; so in sim. of swift brightness Na 2:5, sg. only ψ 144:6 2 S 22:15 (where however read בְּרָקִים בָּרַק cf. בָּרַק—so 𝔊L Klo Che, cf. his crit. n. ψ 18:15), Ez 1:13 (in vision), and in sim. of brightness Dn 10:6; swift destruction Zc 9:14. fig. (always sing.) of flashing arrow-head Jb 20:25, cf. ב׳ חרב Dt 32:41, ב׳ חנית Na 3:3 Hb 3:11; cf. glitter of weapon Ez 21:15, 20, 33.
Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 21 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)
Trees and pragmatics
Every English meaning of «בָּרָק» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.
In the verses
וַיִּשְׁלַ֥ח חִצִּ֖ים וַיְפִיצֵ֑ם בָּרָ֖ק וַיָּהֹֽם׃
Word for word: and he.sent.out arrows and he scattered.them lightning and he.confused.[them]
JPS 1917: And He sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.
הֵאִ֣ירוּ בְרָקָ֣יו תֵּבֵ֑ל רָאֲתָ֖ה וַתָּחֵ֣ל הָאָֽרֶץ׃
Word for word: they.light.up flashes his.lightning [the].world it.sees and it.trembled the earth
JPS 1917: His lightnings lighted up the world; the earth saw, and trembled.
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