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Strong's H1197 בָּעַר (baar)

Baar means “kindle” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G1197 — desme (“bundle”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H1197
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 90
Books 20

Strong's H1197 Quick Answer

Strong's H1197 בָּעַר (ba`ar) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. ba`ar (baw-ar') v. 1. to kindle 2. to consume (by fire or by eating) It has 90 linked Bible usages across 20 books. Visible English usage signals include fire, kindle, brutish, bring, and also. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
ba`ar (baw-ar') v. 1. to kindle 2. to consume (by fire or by eating)
Usage
90 linked usages
Books
20 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
fire, kindle, brutish, bring, and also

Meaning and Definition

ba`ar (baw-ar') v. 1. to kindle 2. to consume (by fire or by eating) 3. (also, as denominative from H1198) to be(-come) brutish [a primitive root] KJV: be brutish, bring (put, take) away, burn, (cause to) eat (up), feed, heat, kindle, set (on fire), waste. See also: H1198

Original Word
בָּעַר
Transliteration
ba`ar
Derivation
Root: בער
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H1197. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

to burn: burn

Usage: : burn/ignite 1) to burn, consume, kindle, be kindled 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to begin to burn, be kindled, start burning 1a2) to burn, be burning 1a3) to burn, consume 1a4) Jehovah's wrath, human wrath (fig.) 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to kindle, burn 1b2) to consume, remove (of guilt) (fig.) 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to kindle 1c2) to burn up 1c3) to consume (destroy) 1d) (Pual) to burn

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How Strong's H1197 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ba`ar, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

fire Exodus 3:2 34× brutish Psalms 94:8 kindle Exodus 35:3 bring Deuteronomy 22:21 also Deuteronomy 26:13 come Esther 1:12

How Strong's H1197 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 90 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H1197 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H1197 in the Old Testament

90 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Exodus 3:2 KJV

And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

Exodus 3:3 KJV

And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.

Exodus 22:5 KJV

If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.

Usage Excerpts

First 90 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1197.

Exodus 3:2 Old Testament, KJV
And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
Exodus 3:3 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
Exodus 22:5 Old Testament, KJV
If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.
Exodus 22:6 Old Testament, KJV
If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
Exodus 35:3 Old Testament, KJV
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.
Leviticus 6:12 Old Testament, KJV
And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings.
Numbers 11:1 Old Testament, KJV
And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.
Numbers 11:3 Old Testament, KJV
And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt among them.
Numbers 24:22 Old Testament, KJV
Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.
Deuteronomy 4:11 Old Testament, KJV
And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
Deuteronomy 5:23 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
Deuteronomy 9:15 Old Testament, KJV
So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
Deuteronomy 13:5 Old Testament, KJV
And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.
Deuteronomy 17:7 Old Testament, KJV
The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you.
Deuteronomy 17:12 Old Testament, KJV
And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy 19:13 Old Testament, KJV
Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
Deuteronomy 19:19 Old Testament, KJV
Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
Deuteronomy 21:9 Old Testament, KJV
So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.
Deuteronomy 21:21 Old Testament, KJV
And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
Deuteronomy 22:21 Old Testament, KJV
Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
Deuteronomy 22:22 Old Testament, KJV
If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy 22:24 Old Testament, KJV
Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.
Deuteronomy 24:7 Old Testament, KJV
If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.
Deuteronomy 26:13 Old Testament, KJV
Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them.
Deuteronomy 26:14 Old Testament, KJV
I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.
Judges 15:5 Old Testament, KJV
And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.
Judges 15:14 Old Testament, KJV
And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.
Judges 20:13 Old Testament, KJV
Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel.
2 Samuel 4:11 Old Testament, KJV
How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
2 Samuel 22:9 Old Testament, KJV
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
2 Samuel 22:13 Old Testament, KJV
Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.
1 Kings 14:10 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.
1 Kings 16:3 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity of his house; and will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
1 Kings 21:21 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel,
1 Kings 22:46 Old Testament, KJV
And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
2 Kings 23:24 Old Testament, KJV
Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 4:20 Old Testament, KJV
Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;
2 Chronicles 13:11 Old Testament, KJV
And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.
2 Chronicles 19:3 Old Testament, KJV
Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.
2 Chronicles 28:3 Old Testament, KJV
Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
Nehemiah 10:34 Old Testament, KJV
And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law:
Esther 1:12 Old Testament, KJV
But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.
Job 1:16 Old Testament, KJV
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Psalms 2:12 Old Testament, KJV
Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Psalms 18:8 Old Testament, KJV
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
Psalms 39:3 Old Testament, KJV
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
Psalms 79:5 Old Testament, KJV
How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
Psalms 83:14 Old Testament, KJV
As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
Psalms 89:46 Old Testament, KJV
How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?
Psalms 94:8 Old Testament, KJV
Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
Psalms 106:18 Old Testament, KJV
And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
Isaiah 1:31 Old Testament, KJV
And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
Isaiah 3:14 Old Testament, KJV
The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
Isaiah 4:4 Old Testament, KJV
When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
Isaiah 5:5 Old Testament, KJV
And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
Isaiah 6:13 Old Testament, KJV
But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof.
Isaiah 9:18 Old Testament, KJV
For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
Isaiah 10:17 Old Testament, KJV
And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
Isaiah 19:11 Old Testament, KJV
Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
Isaiah 30:27 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
Isaiah 30:33 Old Testament, KJV
For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
Isaiah 34:9 Old Testament, KJV
And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
Isaiah 40:16 Old Testament, KJV
And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
Isaiah 42:25 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
Isaiah 43:2 Old Testament, KJV
When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
Isaiah 44:15 Old Testament, KJV
Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.
Isaiah 50:11 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.
Isaiah 62:1 Old Testament, KJV
For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
Jeremiah 4:4 Old Testament, KJV
Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Jeremiah 7:18 Old Testament, KJV
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Jeremiah 7:20 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
Jeremiah 10:8 Old Testament, KJV
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
Jeremiah 10:14 Old Testament, KJV
Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Jeremiah 10:21 Old Testament, KJV
For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
Jeremiah 20:9 Old Testament, KJV
Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
Jeremiah 21:12 Old Testament, KJV
O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Jeremiah 36:22 Old Testament, KJV
Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
Jeremiah 44:6 Old Testament, KJV
Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day.
Jeremiah 51:17 Old Testament, KJV
Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Lamentations 2:3 Old Testament, KJV
He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.
Ezekiel 1:13 Old Testament, KJV
As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
Ezekiel 5:2 Old Testament, KJV
Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
Ezekiel 20:48 Old Testament, KJV
And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.
Ezekiel 21:31 Old Testament, KJV
And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.
Ezekiel 39:9 Old Testament, KJV
And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:
Ezekiel 39:10 Old Testament, KJV
So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.
Hosea 7:4 Old Testament, KJV
They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
Hosea 7:6 Old Testament, KJV
For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
Nahum 2:13 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.
Malachi 4:1 Old Testament, KJV
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1197, grouped by book.

Exodus 5 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 1 usage, Old Testament
Numbers 3 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 16 usages, Old Testament
Judges 3 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 3 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 4 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 4 usages, Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Esther 1 usage, Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Old Testament
Psalms 8 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 17 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 11 usages, Old Testament
Lamentations 1 usage, Old Testament
Ezekiel 6 usages, Old Testament
Hosea 2 usages, Old Testament
Nahum 1 usage, Old Testament
Malachi 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H1197 FAQ

What does baar (בָּעַר) mean?

Baar (Strong's H1197) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "kindle". ba`ar (baw-ar') v. 1. to kindle 2. to consume (by fire or by eating)

How many times is baar (בָּעַר) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 90 linked usages for Strong's H1197 across 20 books.

Where can I study baar (בָּעַר) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1197 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate baar (בָּעַר)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as fire, kindle, brutish, bring, also, and come. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.