בָּרָא (bara) is a Hebrew verb meaning create. It appears 54 times in 13 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H1254).

Also rendered

• bara
• shape
• form

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 278)

Root family 278: בָּרָא bārāʾ — I, create, make, Creator (Qal); choose, cut down, dispatch, (Piel); be created, be done (Niphal; RSV “yet unborn” in Ps 102:18 [H 19]; “clear ground” in Josh 17:15, 18; RSV and ASV “mark” in Ezk 21:19 [H 24])

• בְּרִיאָה bĕrîʾâ — a creation

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