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Hebrew

בָּרָא ba·ra

“to create” · 55 times in the Old Testament

Through the Bible

Genesis: 11 timesExodus: onceLeviticus: 0 timesNumbers: onceDeuteronomy: onceJoshua: 2 timesJudges: 0 timesRuth: 0 times1 Samuel: once2 Samuel: once1 Kings: 0 times2 Kings: 0 times1 Chronicles: 0 times2 Chronicles: 0 timesEzra: 0 timesNehemiah: 0 timesEsther: 0 timesJob: 0 timesPsalms: 6 timesProverbs: 0 timesEcclesiastes: onceSong of Songs: 0 timesIsaiah: 21 timesJeremiah: onceLamentations: 0 timesEzekiel: 6 timesDaniel: 0 timesHosea: 0 timesJoel: 0 timesAmos: onceObadiah: 0 timesJonah: 0 timesMicah: 0 timesNahum: 0 timesHabakkuk: 0 timesZephaniah: 0 timesHaggai: 0 timesZechariah: 0 timesMalachi: onceMatthew: 0 timesMark: 0 timesLuke: 0 timesJohn: 0 timesActs: 0 timesRomans: 0 times1 Corinthians: 0 times2 Corinthians: 0 timesGalatians: 0 timesEphesians: 0 timesPhilippians: 0 timesColossians: 0 times1 Thessalonians: 0 times2 Thessalonians: 0 times1 Timothy: 0 times2 Timothy: 0 timesTitus: 0 timesPhilemon: 0 timesHebrews: 0 timesJames: 0 times1 Peter: 0 times2 Peter: 0 times1 John: 0 times2 John: 0 times3 John: 0 timesJude: 0 timesRevelation: 0 timesLawHistoryWisdomProphetsGospelsLetters
  • “created” 22
  • “create” 8
  • “creator” 3
  • “who created” 3
  • “creation” 2
  • other ways 17
As a table, book by book
BookTimes
Genesis11
Exodus1
Numbers1
Deuteronomy1
Joshua2
1 Samuel1
2 Samuel1
Psalms6
Ecclesiastes1
Isaiah21
Jeremiah1
Ezekiel6
Amos1
Malachi1

How the BSB translates it

Each way the Berean Standard Bible puts it into English, and how often.

  1. created22
  2. create8
  3. creator3
  4. who created3
  5. created it2
  6. creation2
  7. bringing1
  8. brings about1
  9. clear1
  10. clear it1
  11. create us1
  12. created them1
  13. 9 other ways9
Its meanings, as STEP Bible divides them
  • to create 53
  • to fatten 2

With a pronoun joined

Hebrew joins “me”, “you”, “him” and the like to the end of a word.

Where it occurs

Grouped by how it’s translated, then by book. Each reference opens the verse.

“created” 22

  • Genesis 8

    • 1:1 …In the beginning God created the heavens and the…
    • 1:21 …So God created the great sea creatures…
    • 1:27 …So God created man in His own…
    • 1:27 …the image of God He created him male and female…
    • 1:27 …him male and female He created them…
    • 5:1 …the day that God created man He made him…
    • 5:2 …And in the day they were created He called them man…
    • 6:7 …blot out man whom I have created from the face of…

  • Deuteronomy 1

    • 4:32 …the day that God created man on earth Has…

  • Psalms 4

    • 89:12 …North and south You created Tabor and Hermon shout…
    • 89:47 …lifespan For what futility You have created all men…
    • 104:30 …You send Your Spirit they are created and You renew the…
    • 148:5 …He gave the command and they were created

  • Isaiah 6

    • 40:26 …eyes on high Who created all these He leads…
    • 43:7 …called by My name and created for My glory whom…
    • 45:12 …who made the earth and created man upon it It…
    • 48:7 They are created now and not long…
    • 54:16 …Behold I have created the craftsman who fans…
    • 54:16 …its task and I have created the destroyer to wreak…

  • Jeremiah 1

    • 31:22 …daughter For the LORD has created a new thing in…

  • Ezekiel 2

    • 21:30 …In the place where you were created in the land of…
    • 28:15 …From the day you were created you were blameless in…
“create” 8

  • Psalms 1

    • 51:10 Create in me a clean…

  • Isaiah 7

    • 4:5 …Then the LORD will create over all of Mount…
    • 45:7 …I form the light and create the darkness I bring…
    • 45:7 …darkness I bring prosperity and create calamity I the LORD…
    • 45:18 …it He did not create it to be empty…
    • 65:17 …For behold I will create new heavens and a…
    • 65:18 …forever in what I create for I will create…
    • 65:18 …what I create for I will create Jerusalem to be a…
“creator” 3

  • Ecclesiastes 1

    • 12:1 …Remember your Creator in the days of…

  • Isaiah 2

    • 40:28 …is the everlasting God the Creator of the ends of…
    • 43:15 …LORD your Holy One the Creator of Israel and your…
“who created” 3

  • Isaiah 2

    • 42:5 …God the LORD says He who created the heavens and stretched…
    • 45:18 …thus says the LORD who created the heavens He is…

  • Amos 1

    • 4:13 …who forms the mountains who creates the wind and reveals…
“creation” 2

  • Genesis 1

    • 2:3 …from all the work of creation that He had accomplished…

  • Ezekiel 1

    • 28:13 …prepared on the day of your creation
“created it” 2

  • Isaiah 2

    • 41:20 …Holy One of Israel has created it
    • 45:8 …it I the LORD have created it
“when they were created” 1

  • Genesis 1

    • 2:4 …heavens and the earth when they were created in the day that…
“created them” 1

  • Genesis 1

    • 5:2 …Male and female He created them and He blessed them…
“done” 1

  • Exodus 1

    • 34:10 …wonders that have never been done in any nation in…
“brings about” 1

  • Numbers 1

    • 16:30 …But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented and the…
“clear” 1

  • Joshua 1

    • 17:15 …go to the forest and clear for yourself an area…
“clear it” 1

  • Joshua 1

    • 17:18 …It is a forest clear it and its farthest limits…
“fattening yourselves” 1

  • 1 Samuel 1

    • 2:29 …sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of…
“eat” 1

  • 2 Samuel 1

    • 12:17 …unwilling and would not eat anything with them…
“not yet created” 1

  • Psalms 1

    • 102:18 …so that a people not yet created may praise the LORD…
“who created you” 1

  • Isaiah 1

    • 43:1 …what the LORD says He who created you O Jacob and He…
“bringing” 1

  • Isaiah 1

    • 57:19 bringing praise to their lips…
“make” 1

  • Ezekiel 1

    • 21:19 …from the same land And make a signpost where the…
“each city” 1

  • Ezekiel 1

    • 21:19 …the road branches off to each city
“down” 1

  • Ezekiel 1

    • 23:47 …them and cut them down with their swords They…
“create us” 1

  • Malachi 1

    • 2:10 …Did not one God create us Why then do we…

The Hebrew and Greek words, their glosses and grammar: STEP Bible (CC BY 4.0). The English: the Berean Standard Bible, which also gives which English words render which. Counts are ours.