בַּר bar

Hebrew word for “grain” · Strong’s H1250 · used 14 times in 14 verses

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Meaning

corn, grain

Senses in the lexicon

• grain (13)
• field (1)

How it is translated

Glosses given for bar in context, with how often each is used:

• grain 13
• open 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Genesis 41 (2), Genesis 42 (2), Amos 8 (2), Genesis 45 (1), Job 39 (1), Psalms 65 (1), Psalms 72 (1), Proverbs 11 (1), Jeremiah 23 (1), Joel 2 (1)

Forms

• בר 12
• הבר 1
• בבר 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with bar more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• שָׁבַר shavar “to buy grain” 4
• צָבַר tsavar “to heap” 2
• יוֹסֵף yoseph “Joseph” 3
• דַּל dal “poor” 2
• סָפַר saphar “to recount” 2
• עֶשֶׂר eser “ten” 2
• הֶם hem “them” 3
• רָבָה ravah “to multiply” 2
• מָלֵא male “to fill” 2
• כֶּסֶף keseph “silver” 2
• רֹאשׁ rosh “head” 2
• מִצְרַיִם mitsrayim “Egypt” 2

Key verses

The verses using bar that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 41:35 — And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.
• Genesis 41:49 — And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
• Genesis 42:25 — Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man’s money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he…
• Genesis 45:23 — And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father…
• Psalms 65:13 — The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
• Psalms 72:16 — There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish…
• Proverbs 11:26 — He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.
• Jeremiah 23:28 — The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.
• Joel 2:24 — And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.
• Amos 5:11 — Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in…
• Amos 8:5 — Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and…
• Amos 8:6 — That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.