בְּרִיחַ beriach

Hebrew word for “bar” · Strong’s H1280 · used 40 times in 36 verses

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Meaning

1) bar; 1a) of wood; 1b) of city gates; 2) of tribulation, a fortress, of the earth as a prison (fig.)

How it is translated

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

• bars 33
• bar 6
• like the bar 1

Where it is used

Also in 6 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Nehemiah 3 (5), Exodus 26 (4), Exodus 36 (4), Exodus 35 (1), Exodus 39 (1), Exodus 40 (1), Numbers 3 (1), Numbers 4 (1), Deuteronomy 3 (1), Judges 16 (1)

Forms

• ובריחיו 7
• בריחם 5
• ובריח 5
• בריחיו 3
• בריח 3
• לבריחם 2
• הבריחם 2
• בריחי 2
• הבריח 2
• ובריחי 2

Words used with it

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

• דֶּלֶת delet “door” 15
• קֶרֶשׁ qeresh “board” 13
• מִשְׁכָּן mishkan “tabernacle” 10
• מַנְעוּל manul “bolt” 5
• שַׁעַר shaar “gate” 9
• חוֹמָה chomah “wall” 7
• אֶדֶן eden “socket” 5
• שָׁבַר shavar “to break” 6
• עַמּוּד ammud “pillar” 5
• צֵלָע tsela “side” 4
• בָּנָה banah “to build” 6
• עִיר ir “city” 7

Key verses

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

• Numbers 3:36 — And under the custody and charge of the sons of Merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets…
• 1 Samuel 23:7 — And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath…
• 1 Kings 4:13 — The son of Geber, in Ramoth-gilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob,…
• 2 Chronicles 14:7 — Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we…
• Nehemiah 3:15 — But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the…
• Psalms 147:13 — For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.
• Proverbs 18:19 — A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
• Jeremiah 49:31 — Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell alone.
• Jeremiah 51:30 — The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her…
• Lamentations 2:9 — Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets…
• Ezekiel 38:11 — And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls,…
• Jonah 2:6 — I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.

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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.