בָּעַרbâʻar

בָּעַר: burn, consume

Pronunciation: baw-ar' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1197

Meanings

Qal: burn (Numbers 11:3; Isaiah 10:17; Judges 15:14)

1. begin to burn, be kindled (Psalms 18:8; 2 Samuel 22:9; 2 Samuel 22:13)

2. be burning, burn (Judges 15:14; Exodus 3:2; Exodus 3:3)

3. burn, consume (Numbers 11:1; Numbers 11:3; Job 1:16)

4. active but absolute, figurativea (Jeremiah 4:4; Jeremiah 7:20; Jeremiah 21:12)

Pi`el

1. kindle (Exodus 35:3; Jeremiah 7:18; Ezekiel 39:9)

2. burn (Leviticus 6:5; 1 Kings 14:10; Isaiah 44:15)

3. consume, figurative (Deuteronomy 13:6; Deuteronomy 17:7; Deuteronomy 17:12)

Pu`al: burn (Jeremiah 36:22)

Hiph`il

1. kindle (Exodus 22:5; Judges 15:5)

2. burn up (Judges 15:5; 2 Chronicles 28:3; Ezekiel 5:2)

3. consume = destroy (compare Pi`el) (1 Kings 16:3)

בָּעַר: be brutish

Qal: be stupid, dull-hearted, unreceptive, of inhuman, cruel, barbarous men (Jeremiah 10:8; Psalms 94:8; Ezekiel 21:36)

Niph`al: brutish, stupid (Jeremiah 10:14; Jeremiah 51:17; Jeremiah 10:21)

Pi`el: feed, graze (Exodus 22:4)

Hiph`il: cause to be grazed over (Exodus 22:4)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 94 times in the Bible.

  • Exodus 3:2 There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the middle of a bush. Moses stared in amazement. Though the bush was engulfed in flames, it didn’t burn up.
  • Exodus 3:3 “This is amazing,” Moses said to himself. “Why isn’t that bush burning up? I must go see it.”
  • Exodus 22:5 “If an animal is grazing in a field or vineyard and the owner lets it stray into someone else’s field to graze, then the animal’s owner must pay compensation from the best of his own grain or grapes.
  • Exodus 22:6 “If you are burning thornbushes and the fire gets out of control and spreads into another person’s field, destroying the sheaves or the uncut grain or the whole crop, the one who started the fire must pay for the lost crop.
  • Exodus 35:3 You must not even light a fire in any of your homes on the Sabbath.”
  • Leviticus 6:12 Meanwhile, the fire on the altar must be kept burning; it must never go out. Each morning the priest will add fresh wood to the fire and arrange the burnt offering on it. He will then burn the fat of the peace offerings on it.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).