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Judges 15:5
“And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H1197 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to kindle, i.e. consume (by fire or by eating); to be(-come) brutish
- Derivation
- a primitive root; also as denominative from H1198 (בַּעַר)
- KJV renderings
- be brutish, bring (put, take) away, burn, (cause to) eat (up), feed, heat, kindle, set (on fire), waste.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יַּבְעֶר — verb Hiphil, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 94 times in the Hebrew Bible.Exodus 3:2Exodus 3:3Exodus 22:4Exodus 22:4Exodus 22:5
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 בָּעַר 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.