Original Language Studio
Genesis 1:21
“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.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H1254 · Hebrew
- Definition
- (absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes)
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat).
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יִּבְרָ֣א — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 54 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 1:1Genesis 1:27Genesis 1:27Genesis 1:27Genesis 2:3
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read בָּרָא here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.