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Strong's H1254 בָּרָא (bara)

Bara means “cut down” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G1254 — diakolyo (“forbid”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H1254
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 46
Books 13

Strong's H1254 Quick Answer

Strong's H1254 בָּרָא (bara') is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. bara' (baw-raw') v. 1. (absolutely) to create 2. (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes) It has 46 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include created, create, down, cut, and had. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
bara' (baw-raw') v. 1. (absolutely) to create 2. (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes)
Usage
46 linked usages
Books
13 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
created, create, down, cut, and had

Meaning and Definition

bara' (baw-raw') v. 1. (absolutely) to create 2. (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes) [a primitive root] KJV: choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat).

Original Word
בָּרָא
Transliteration
bara'
Derivation
Root: ברא
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H1254. 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 create

Usage: 1) to create, shape, form 1a) (Qal) to shape, fashion, create (always with God as subject) 1a1) of heaven and earth 1a2) of individual man 1a3) of new conditions and circumstances 1a4) of transformations 1b) (Niphal) to be created 1b1) of heaven and earth 1b2) of birth 1b3) of something new 1b4) of miracles 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to cut down 1c2) to cut out

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How Strong's H1254 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render bara', 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.

Create Psalms 51:10 created Genesis 1:1 cut Joshua 17:15 down Numbers 16:30 choose Ezekiel 21:19 had Genesis 2:3 were Genesis 5:2 when Genesis 2:4

How Strong's H1254 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 46 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H1254 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 H1254 in the Old Testament

46 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 1:1 KJV

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Genesis 1:21 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 1:27 KJV

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Usage Excerpts

First 46 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1254.

Genesis 1:1 Old Testament, KJV
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Genesis 1:21 Old Testament, 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 1:27 Old Testament, KJV
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 2:3 Old Testament, 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 2:4 Old Testament, 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 5:1 Old Testament, 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 5:2 Old Testament, KJV
Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
Genesis 6:7 Old Testament, 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.
Exodus 34:10 Old Testament, KJV
And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.
Numbers 16:30 Old Testament, KJV
But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.
Deuteronomy 4:32 Old Testament, KJV
For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
Joshua 17:15 Old Testament, KJV
And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
Joshua 17:18 Old Testament, KJV
But the mountain shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, and though they be strong.
1 Samuel 2:29 Old Testament, KJV
Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?
Psalms 51:10 Old Testament, KJV
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Psalms 89:12 Old Testament, KJV
The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
Psalms 89:47 Old Testament, KJV
Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
Psalms 102:18 Old Testament, KJV
This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
Psalms 104:30 Old Testament, KJV
Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Psalms 148:5 Old Testament, KJV
Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created.
Ecclesiastes 12:1 Old Testament, KJV
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
Isaiah 4:5 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
Isaiah 40:26 Old Testament, KJV
Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.
Isaiah 40:28 Old Testament, KJV
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
Isaiah 41:20 Old Testament, KJV
That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
Isaiah 42:5 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
Isaiah 43:1 Old Testament, KJV
But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
Isaiah 43:7 Old Testament, KJV
Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
Isaiah 43:15 Old Testament, KJV
I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.
Isaiah 45:7 Old Testament, KJV
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Isaiah 45:8 Old Testament, KJV
Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.
Isaiah 45:12 Old Testament, KJV
I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
Isaiah 45:18 Old Testament, KJV
For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
Isaiah 48:7 Old Testament, KJV
They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.
Isaiah 54:16 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
Isaiah 57:19 Old Testament, KJV
I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.
Isaiah 65:17 Old Testament, KJV
For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
Isaiah 65:18 Old Testament, KJV
But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
Jeremiah 31:22 Old Testament, KJV
How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
Ezekiel 21:19 Old Testament, KJV
Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.
Ezekiel 21:30 Old Testament, KJV
Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.
Ezekiel 23:47 Old Testament, KJV
And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
Ezekiel 28:13 Old Testament, KJV
Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
Ezekiel 28:15 Old Testament, KJV
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
Amos 4:13 Old Testament, KJV
For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.
Malachi 2:10 Old Testament, KJV
Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1254, grouped by book.

Genesis 8 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 1 usage, Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Old Testament
Joshua 2 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
Psalms 6 usages, Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 17 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Ezekiel 5 usages, Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Old Testament
Malachi 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H1254 FAQ

What does bara (בָּרָא) mean?

Bara (Strong's H1254) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "cut down". bara' (baw-raw') v. 1. (absolutely) to create 2. (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes)

How many times is bara (בָּרָא) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 46 linked usages for Strong's H1254 across 13 books.

Where can I study bara (בָּרָא) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1254 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate bara (בָּרָא)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as created, create, down, cut, had, and when. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.