בָּרַר bârar — to clarify (i.e. brighten), examine, select
Translated in the KJV as make bright, choice, chosen, cleanse, clearly, polished, pure, purge.
a primitive root; to clarify (i.e. brighten), examine, select.
bârar in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (passive) 5Infinitive construct 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father’s house, choice and mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men.
All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.
And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were expressed by name, to give thanks to the Lord, because his mercy endureth for ever;
Niph'al
Participle (active) 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Imperative 1
With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.
For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord.
Hitpa'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2
For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
Hiph'il
Infinitive construct 1Imperative 1
At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple.
Pi'el
Infinitive construct 1
And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.
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 ›