בָּרָא bârâʼ — (absolutely) to create
Translated in the KJV as choose, create, cut down, dispatch, do, make.
a primitive root; (absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes).
bârâʼ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 19Participle (active) 13Wayyiqtol 2Infinitive construct 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Imperative 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Niph'al
Infinitive construct 4Perfect (qatal) 4Participle (active) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the Lord: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.
Pi'el
Infinitive absolute 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2
And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
But the mountain shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, and though they be strong.
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.
Hiph'il
Infinitive construct 1
Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?
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 ›