H1305

ברר

barar

Verb · A primitive root

A primitive root; to clarify (i.e. brighten), examine, select:—make bright, choice, chosen, cleanse (be clean), clearly, polished, (shew self) pure(-ify), purge (out).

Outline

to purify, select, polish, choose, purge, cleanse or make bright, test or prove

(Qal)

to purge, purge out, purify
to choose, select
to cleanse, make shining, polish
to test, prove

(Niphal) to purify oneself
(Piel) to purify
(Hiphil)

to purify
to polish arrows

(Hithpael)

to purify oneself
to show oneself pure, just, kind

Usages

2 Samuel 22:27

With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.

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1 Chronicles 7:40

All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father’s house, choice and mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men.

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1 Chronicles 9:22

All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.

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1 Chronicles 16:41

And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were expressed by name, to give thanks to the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever;

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Nehemiah 5:18

Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.

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Job 33:3

My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.

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Psalms 18:26

With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.

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Ecclesiastes 3:18

I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

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Isaiah 49:2

And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;

Precepts

Hebrews 4:12

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Isaiah 52:11

¶ Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.

Precepts

Jeremiah 51:6

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Jeremiah 4:11

At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,

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Jeremiah 51:11

Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.

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Ezekiel 20:38

And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

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Daniel 11:35

And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.

Breakdown

make them white make them pure. time of the end Daniel was receiving the revelation before it happened. The end he is speaking of here is the end of the revelations regarding Antiochus, Judas Maccabees and Ptolemy.

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Daniel 12:10

Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.

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none of the wicked shall understand The so-called white man, known biblically as the Edomites. Tagged as Cornelius as it proves that he could not have been a heathen because he got the truth

Cornelius

Exodus 2:17-19 Psalms 10:4 Proverbs 28:9 Ezekiel 44:9 Ecclesiasticus 39:24 John 9:31 Revelation 14:3

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Zephaniah 3:9

For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.

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