Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
to use lightning
Usage: to flash (with lightning)
Baraq means “lightning” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G1300 — diateleo (“continue”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H1300 בָּרָק (baraq) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. baraq (baw-rawk') n-m. 1. lightning 2. (by analogy) a gleam It has 21 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include sword, lightning, glitter, and glittering. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
baraq (baw-rawk') n-m. 1. lightning 2. (by analogy) a gleam 3. (concretely) a flashing sword [from H1299] KJV: bright, glitter(-ing sword), lightning. Root(s): H1299
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to use lightning
Usage: to flash (with lightning)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render baraq, 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.
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.
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21 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.
First 21 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1300.
And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.
It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go and say unto thee, Here we are?
Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.
Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
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.
It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.
I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.
And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:
His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.
The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:
The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.
And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the LORD God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1300, grouped by book.
Baraq (Strong's H1300) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "lightning". baraq (baw-rawk') n-m. 1. lightning 2. (by analogy) a gleam
This page currently indexes 21 linked usages for Strong's H1300 across 11 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1300 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as sword, lightning, glitter, and glittering. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.