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Words
בָּר H1250
- Home gloss
- corn
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- corn / grain
- Note
- Threshed grain, winnowed clean (the root of בָּרַר "purify"): amassed (41:35, 49), bought (42:3), "the valleys mantled with corn" (Ps 65:14). "Corn" in its old English sense: the Old World grains, wheat and barley, never the New World maize. "Grain" is דָּגָן's; WPRB "grain"
- Rulings
- 2, 57, 134
Occurrences (5)
- 41:35 And let them collect all the food of these good years that are coming, and amass corn under the hand of Pharaoh, food in the cities, and let them keep it.
- 41:49 And Joseph amassed corn like the sand of the sea, making very many, until he left off numbering, for number there was none.
- 42:3 And the brothers of Joseph went down, ten, to buy rations of corn from Egypt.
- 42:25 And Joseph commanded, and they filled their articles with corn, and to return their silvers, each man into his sack, and to give them provision for the way. And he did for them thus.
- 45:23 And to his father he sent like this: ten donkeys lifting of the good of Egypt, and ten she-donkeys lifting corn and bread and nourishment for his father for the way.