בַּעַר
baʿar
brutishness
Strong's H1198NounHebrewTWOT 264b

בַּעַר (baʿar) is a Hebrew noun meaning brutishness. It appears 5 times in 2 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H1198).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 264b)

Range of meaning (TWOT 264b)brutishness; foot, stupid; brutish, foolish
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

בַּ֫עַר noun, masculine: brutishness

brutishness (only poetic)

Strong's H1198 בַּעַר: properly, foot (as consumed); i.e. (by exten.) of cattle brutishness; (concretely) stupid
KJV:brutish (person), foolish.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 264: בָּעַר bāʿar — be brutish; be stupid, dull-hearted, unreceptive; feed, graze; cause to be grazed over; kindle, consume, be (-come) brutish; bring away, burn, eat, heat, set, waste

See it in Scripture

Psalms 73:22Proverbs 12:1

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