Words

בָּרָא H1254

Home gloss

create

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

create

Note

Only Elohim is ever its subject. Kept apart from עָשָׂה "make" (v. 7, 16, 25) and יָצַר "shape" (2:7), so the chapter's three verbs of making stay three

Rulings

2

Occurrences (9)

Genesis 1

• 1:1 When Elohim began creating the skies and the land—
• 1:21 And Elohim created the great dragons, and every living soul that creeps, which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged flyer after its kind. And Elohim saw that it was good.
• 1:27 And Elohim created the human in his icon; in the icon of Elohim he created him; male and female he created them.

Genesis 2

• 2:3 And Elohim blessed the seventh day and made it holy, for on it he sabbathed from all his work that Elohim had created to make.
• 2:4 These are the producings of the skies and the land when they were created. On the day Elohim made land and skies—

Genesis 5

• 5:1 This is the scroll of the producings of human. On the day Elohim created human, in the likeness of Elohim he made him.
• 5:2 Male and female he created them, and he blessed them, and he called their name Human on the day they were created.
• 5:2 Male and female he created them, and he blessed them, and he called their name Human on the day they were created.

Genesis 6

• 6:7 And said, "I will wipe the human whom I created from on the face of the ground, from human to beast, to creeper and to the flyers of the skies; for I am sorry that I made them."