בָּרִיא
fat
‘fat’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Absolute 4 times (31%)
- Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 3 times (23%)
- Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Construct 2 times (15%)
- Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 2 times (15%)
- Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 1 time (8%)
- Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Construct 1 time (8%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 13 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H1277 appears — 13 distinct verses across 8 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 6 verses
- Genesis 41:2 וּ/בְרִיאֹ֣ת conj + Adjective Adjective fp cs Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, well-favored and fat-fleshed, and they fed in the reed-grass.
- Genesis 41:4 וְ/הַ/בְּרִיאֹ֑ת conj + ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fp The ill-favored and lean-fleshed cattle ate up the seven well-favored and fat cattle. So Pharaoh awoke.
- Genesis 41:5 בְּרִיא֥וֹת adj Adjective fp He slept and dreamed a second time: and, behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.
- Genesis 41:7 הַ/בְּרִיא֖וֹת ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fp The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.
- Genesis 41:18 בְּרִיא֥וֹת adj Adjective fp cs and, behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat-fleshed and well-favored. They fed in the reed-grass,
- Genesis 41:20 הַ/בְּרִיאֹֽת ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fp The lean and ill-favored cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle,
Judges 1 verse
1 Kings 1 verse
Psalms 1 verse
Ezekiel 1 verse
Daniel 1 verse
Habakkuk 1 verse
Zechariah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
בריא — transliterated bârîyʼ — is a Hebrew adjective carrying the sense “fat.” Debuting at Genesis 41:2, it then recurs through the corpus. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 13 verses — uncommon. More than a third of its appearances fall in Genesis. BDB distinguishes 2 senses for it. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1277 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 13
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 13 distinct verses.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,001
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,001 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 13 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 13 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 6 verses · 46%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 5 verses · 38%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 15%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Fat 5×, Fatfleshed 2×, Rank 2×
- American Standard Version: Fat 5×, Fat-fleshed 2×, Rank 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Well-fed 4×, Plump 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Fat 7×, Fat fleshed 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1277 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1277 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1277 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1277 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- fat
- (TWOT) fat, fatter, fed, firm, plenteous, rank
Word origin
adj. fat—ψ 73:4 Ju 3:17; pl. בְּרִיאִים 1 K 5:3; cstr. בְּרִיאֵי Dn 1:15; f. בְּרִיאָה Hb 1:16 + 2 times + Ez 34:20 בִּרְיָה; Hi Ol§ 171 a בְּרִיָּה, בריאה; pl. בְּרִיאוֹת Gn 41:5 + 3 times; בְּרִיאֹת Gn 41:2, 4;—fat, cattle בקר Gn 41:2, 4, 5, 7, 18, 20 (E) 1 K 5:3; sheep Ez 34:3, 20 Zc 11:16; food Hb 1:16; אישׁ ב׳ fat man Ju 3:17; בריאי בשׂר Dn 1:15; ב׳ אולם their body fat ψ 73:4.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from ברא (bârâʼ) (H1254) — to create.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
בָּרְיָא
- Creator, v. בָּרְיָיא.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 12 distinct written forms H1277 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בְּרִיא֥וֹת | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 41:5 | 2 |
| בְּרִאִ֗ים | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Kings 4:23 | 1 |
| בְּרִאָֽה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Habakkuk 1:16 | 1 |
| בָּרִ֖יא | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Judges 3:17 | 1 |
| הַ/בְּרִיא֖וֹת | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 41:7 | 1 |
| הַ/בְּרִיאָ֖ה | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Ezekiel 34:3 | 1 |
| הַ/בְּרִיאָה֙ | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Zechariah 11:16 | 1 |
| הַ/בְּרִיאֹֽת | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 41:20 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/בְּרִיאֹ֑ת | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 41:4 | 1 |
| וּ/בְרִיאֵ֖י | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Daniel 1:15 | 1 |
| וּ/בְרִיאֹ֣ת | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Genesis 41:2 | 1 |
| וּ/בָרִ֥יא | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 73:4 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1277, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 12 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 13 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
