בְּרִיאָה
creation
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H1278 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
Numbers 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.
בריאה (bᵉrîyʼâh) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “creation.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. It clusters heavily in Numbers, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. It occurs only once, in Numbers 16:30. From the same root come ברא, בריא and בראיה. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1278 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Numbers 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: New thing 1×
- American Standard Version: New thing 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Something unprecedented 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Creation 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1278 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1278 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1278 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1278 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense 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.
- a creation, created thing, new thing, marvel
Word origin
n.f. a creation, thing created, as preternatural, unparalleled; acc. cogn. אִם־ב׳ יִבְרָא י׳ Nu 16:30, cf. בָּרָא Qal 3, Niph. 3.
— 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.
בְּרִיאָה
- (b. h.) f. (ברא) creation, formation. Gen. R. s. 1; Lev. R. s. 36 לב׳ שמים וכ׳ as to creation (plan), the heavens were the first; as to finishing (execution) &c. Gen. R. s. 7, end בְּרִיָּיתוֹ של עולם the creation of the world. Gen. R. s. 17 man looks למקום ברייתו to where he was created from (the earth), woman … למקום בְּרִיָּיתָהּ to where she was made from (the rib); a. fr.—Mikv. VI, 7 כל שהוא מבְּרִיַּית המיים whatever originates in the water (aquatic plants or animals).—Macc. 17ᵃ, a. fr. חיטה אחת כברייתה one wheat grain in its natural condition, נמלה כברייתה an ant in its natural condition (though small). Ib. בריית נשמה the natural condition of an animated being.—Nidd. III, 7 בריית הזכר the formation of a male embryo. B. Kam. 94ᵇ חוזר לברייתו is changed into its original condition.
רֵיאָה
- (רָוָה, v. quot.) lungs. Ber. 61ᵇ ר׳ שואבת וכ׳ the lungs draw (resorb) all liquids. Lev. R. s. 4 הר׳ לשתיה the lungs are the organ for drinking (resorbing liquids). Lev. R. s. 18; Koh. R. to XII, 3; Ḥull. 45ᵃ, v. כָּנָף. Ib. III, 1; a. fr.
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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1278, 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
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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