Bara — To Create
The Bible's first verb — and in Scripture, only God is ever its subject. Creation from nothing is His alone.
Pronunciation: baw-raw'
Hebrew · Strong's H1254 · 46 occurrences in the Old Testament (KJV)
(absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes)
KJV translations: choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat).
Bara in the Bible — example verses
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”Genesis 1:1 (KJV)
“And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.”Genesis 1:21 (KJV)
“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”Genesis 1:27 (KJV)
“And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.”Genesis 2:3 (KJV)
“These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,”Genesis 2:4 (KJV)
“This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;”Genesis 5:1 (KJV)
“Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.”Genesis 5:2 (KJV)
“And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.”Genesis 6:7 (KJV)
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