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The fire, the burning (feminine noun used with cognate accusative in Exodus 22:5)
This rare feminine noun appears only in Exodus 22:6 (English versification 22:5), in a law about liability for fires that spread to another's field. The text uses a cognate accusative construction: 'if fire breaks out... and the fire (ha-be'erah) consumes.' BDB notes this is the only occurrence of this specific form for 'burning' or 'fire.' The multilingual evidence uniformly renders it as 'the fire' (el-fuego, le-feu, der-Feuer), treating it as a definite reference to the fire mentioned in the legal case.
Senses
1. sense 1 — A feminine noun for fire or burning used in the legal context of Exodus 22:6 to specify the conflagration that causes damage. The definite article ('the fire') refers anaphorically to the fire mentioned earlier in the verse. This technical legal usage with the cognate verb 'to kindle/burn' (hib'ir) creates emphasis: 'and the burning burns up' another's field. Cross-linguistic uniformity on 'the fire' suggests translators recognized the definite reference within the casuistic law. 1×
AR["الحَريقَ"]·ben["আগুনকে।"]·DE["der-Feuer"]·EN["the-fire"]·FR["le-feu"]·heb["ה-בערה"]·HI["उस-आग"]·ID["kebakaran itu"]·IT["il-fuoco"]·jav["kobongan-punika."]·KO["그-태움을"]·PT["o-incêndio"]·RU["пожар"]·ES["el-fuego"]·SW["moto"]·TR["yangını"]·urd["اُس-آگ-کا"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† בְּעֵרָה n.f. burning, only הַבּ׳ as acc. cogn. with הִבְעִיר Ex 22:5.