בָּעַר bâʻar — to kindle, i.e. consume (by fire or by eating)
Translated in the KJV as be brutish, bring (put, take) away, burn, eat, feed, heat, kindle, set, waste.
a primitive root; also as denominative from H1198; to kindle, i.e. consume (by fire or by eating); to be (-come) brutish.
bâʻar in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 14Imperfect (yiqtol) 9Perfect (qatal) 7Wayyiqtol 6Sequential perfect (weqatal) 5
And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord: and the Lord heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the Lord burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.
Pi'el
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 17Infinitive construct 8Perfect (qatal) 8Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Cohortative 1Infinitive absolute 1Participle (active) 1
If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.
Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 3Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Participle (active) 2Perfect (qatal) 1
If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.
If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man’s field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.
And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 3Participle (active) 1
Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the Lord: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
Pu'al
Participle (passive) 1
Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›