# בָּרָא (bara)

Israeli respelling: ba-ra. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H1254. 46 Old Testament occurrences.

(absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes)

King James renderings: choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/bara-h1254

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 1:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/1/1) — In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
- [Genesis 1:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Genesis 1:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/1/27) — So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
- [Genesis 2:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/2/3) — And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
- [Genesis 2:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/2/4) — These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heave…
- [Genesis 5:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/5/1) — This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
- [Genesis 5:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/5/2) — Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
- [Genesis 6:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/6/7) — And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the…
- [Exodus 34:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/34/10) — And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any na…
- [Numbers 16:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/16/30) — But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down qu…
- [Deuteronomy 4:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/4/32) — For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side…
- [Joshua 17:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/17/15) — And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of th…
- [Joshua 17:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/17/18) — But the mountain shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive…
- [1 Samuel 2:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/2/29) — Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make y…
- [Psalms 51:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/51/10) — Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
- [Psalms 89:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/89/12) — The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name.
- [Psalms 89:47](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/89/47) — Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
- [Psalms 102:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/102/18) — This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
- [Psalms 104:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/104/30) — Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
- [Psalms 148:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/148/5) — Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created.
- [Ecclesiastes 12:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/12/1) — Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pl…
- [Isaiah 4:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/4/5) — And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a f…
- [Isaiah 40:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/40/26) — Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names b…
- [Isaiah 40:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/40/28) — Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither i…
- [Isaiah 41:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/41/20) — That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel ha…
- [Isaiah 42:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/42/5) — Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of…
- [Isaiah 43:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/43/1) — But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have calle…
- [Isaiah 43:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/43/7) — Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
- [Isaiah 43:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/43/15) — I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.
- [Isaiah 45:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/45/7) — I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
- [Isaiah 45:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/45/8) — Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and l…
- [Isaiah 45:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/45/12) — I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
- [Isaiah 45:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/45/18) — For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not…
- [Isaiah 48:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/48/7) — They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew…
- [Isaiah 54:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/54/16) — Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created…
- [Isaiah 57:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/57/19) — I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.
- [Isaiah 65:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/65/17) — For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
- [Isaiah 65:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/65/18) — But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
- [Jeremiah 31:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/31/22) — How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
- [Ezekiel 21:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/21/19) — Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land:…
- [Ezekiel 21:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/21/30) — Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.
- [Ezekiel 23:47](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/23/47) — And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn…
- [Ezekiel 28:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/28/13) — Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx,…
- [Ezekiel 28:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/28/15) — Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
- [Amos 4:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/4/13) — For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness…
- [Malachi 2:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/2/10) — Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the coven…