בָּרָה bârâh — to select
Translated in the KJV as choose, eat, manifest, meat.
a primitive root; to select; also (as denominative from H1250) to feed; also (as equivalent to H1305) to render clear (Ecclesiastes 3:18); to select; to feed; to render clear.
bârâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Imperative 1Perfect (qatal) 1
And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.
And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand.
Hiph'il
Infinitive construct 1Jussive 1
And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.
And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat, and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it at her hand.
Pi'el
Infinitive construct 1
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of 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 ›