בָּרָהbârâh

eat

Pronunciation: baw-raw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1262

Meanings

Qal: eat bread (2 Samuel 12:17; 2 Samuel 13:6; 2 Samuel 13:10)

Pi`el: for devouring (Lamentations 4:10)

Hiph`il: cause to eat bread (2 Samuel 13:5; 2 Samuel 3:35)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 6 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Samuel 17:8 Goliath stood and shouted a taunt across to the Israelites. “Why are you all coming out to fight?” he called. “I am the Philistine champion, but you are only the servants of Saul. Choose one man to come down here and fight me!
  • 2 Samuel 3:35 David had refused to eat anything on the day of the funeral, and now everyone begged him to eat. But David had made a vow, saying, “May God strike me and even kill me if I eat anything before sundown.”
  • 2 Samuel 13:5 “Well,” Jonadab said, “I’ll tell you what to do. Go back to bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, ask him to let Tamar come and prepare some food for you. Tell him you’ll feel better if she prepares it as you watch and feeds you with her own hands.”
  • 2 Samuel 13:6 So Amnon lay down and pretended to be sick. And when the king came to see him, Amnon asked him, “Please let my sister Tamar come and cook my favorite dish as I watch. Then I can eat it from her own hands.”
  • 2 Samuel 13:10 Then he said to Tamar, “Now bring the food into my bedroom and feed it to me here.” So Tamar took his favorite dish to him.
  • Lamentations 4:10 Tenderhearted women have cooked their own children. They have eaten them to survive the siege.

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).