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Strong's #1300 - בָּרָק
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
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- lightning
- lightnings, lightning flashes
- of flashing arrow-head (figuratively)
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2041) qrb (ברק BRQ) AC: Thrust CO: Sword AB: ?: The shining flash of a sword as it is thrust. [from: rb- being bright]
V) qrb (ברק BRQ) - Thrust: To thrust a sword or throw lightning bolts. KJV (1): (vf: Paal) cast - Strongs: H1299 (בָּרַק)
Nm) qrb (ברק BRQ) - Sword: Also lightning as a sword from the skies. KJV (21): lightning, glittering, bright, glitter, sword - Strongs: H1300 (בָּרָק)
Nf2) tqrb (ברקת BRQT) - Barqet: An unknown gem probably from its shining. KJV (3): carbuncle - Strongs: H1304 (בֳּרְקַת)
mm) nqrb (ברקנ BRQN) - Brier: As a sharp sword. KJV (2): brier - Strongs: H1303 (בַּרְקֹן)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 literal mostly plural = lightnings, lightning-flashes Exodus 19:16; Psalm 18:15; 9in theophanies, on 2 Samuel 22:15 see below) Psalm 77:19; Psalm 97:4; Psalm 135:7; Job 38:35; Jeremiah 10:13; Jeremiah 51:16; so in simile of swift brightness Nahum 2:5, singular only Psalm 144:6; 2 Samuel 22:15 (where however read בְּרָקִים בָּרַק compare בָּרַק — so ᵐ5 L Klo Che, compare his critical note Psalm 18:15), Ezekiel 1:13 (in vision), and in simile of brightness Daniel 10:6; swift destruction Zechariah 9:14.
2 figurative (always singular) of flashing arrow-head Job 20:25, compare חרב׳ב Deuteronomy 32:41, חנית׳ב Nahum 3:3; Habakkuk 3:11; compare glitter of weapon Exodus 21:15,20,33.
בָּרָק m.
(1) lightning. (Syriac, Arab. ܒܰܪܩܳܐ, بَرْقُ id.) Daniel 10:6. Coll. lightnings, Psalms 144:6; 2 Samuel 22:15; Ezekiel 1:13. Pl. בְּרָקִים Job 38:35; Psalms 18:15, 77:19, etc. Applied to the brightness of a sword, Ezekiel 21:15, 33 Eze 21:33. Deuteronomy 32:41, בְּרַק חַרְבִּי “the lightning of my sword,” i.e. my glittering sword. Nahum 3:3; Habakkuk 3:11. Comp. Zechariah 9:14. Hence
(2) poet. the glittering sword itself, Job 20:25.
(3) [Barak], pr.n. of a leader of the Israelites, who by the aid of Deborah obtained a great victory over the Canaanites, Judges 4:6, seq.; 5:1, 12 Judges 5:12, 15 Judges 5:15. Comp. בְּדָן. He was called “thunderbolt,” fulmen (Cic. pro Balb. xv.), as amongst the Pœni “Hamilcar Barcas.”