Senses
1. pure, clean — Adjective meaning pure, clean, or sincere, used in ethical and ritual contexts. Describes the pure fear/commands of the LORD (Ps 19:9 בָּרָה, 'pure'), the requirement of clean hands and pure heart for approaching God (Ps 24:4 וּבַר, 'and pure of [heart]'), the pure in heart to whom God is good (Ps 73:1 לְבָרֵי, 'to the pure in'), Job's claim of doctrinal purity (Job 11:4 וּבַר, 'and clean'), the clean manger where there are no oxen (Prov 14:4 בָּר, 'clean/empty'), and the beloved's radiant beauty (Song 6:9-10 בָּרָה, 'pure/bright'). The auto-split clusters merely reflect different inflectional forms (fs בָּרָה, ms בָּר, mpc בָּרֵי) and prepositional attachments, not distinct senses. Multilingual glosses converge: Arabic طَاهِرَة (pure), German rein (pure), Korean 밝은/깨끗한 (bright/clean), Hindi शुद्ध/पवित्र (pure/holy), Spanish puro/limpio (pure/clean). 7×
AR["بَرَه","طَاهِرَةٌ","لِ-أنْقياءِ-","نَظيفٌ","وَطاهِرٌ","وَطَاهِرُ-"]·ben["এবং-নির্মল-","এবং-পরিষ্কার","যাদের-শুদ্ধ","শস্য","শুদ্ধ"]·DE["[בר]","[ברה]","[ובר]","ist-rein","und-rein-von-","zu-der-rein"]·EN["and-clean","and-pure-of-","clean","is-pure","pure","to-the-pure-in"]·FR["dans-pur","et-pur","pur","pure","à-pur"]·heb["בר","ברה","ו-בר","ו-בר-","ל-ברי"]·HI["और-निर्मल-","और-पवित्र","खाली","शुद्ध","शुद्ध-हृदय-वालों-के-लिए","शुद्ध-है"]·ID["bagi-yang-murni","bersih","dan-bersih","murni"]·IT["e-e-pulito","e-figlio","pulito","puro"]·jav["bersih","kang-murni","kanggé-tiyang-ingkang-resik","lan-murni","murni","saha-murni-"]·KO["구유-가","그리고-깨끗하다","그리고-순수한-","깨끗한-자들-에게","밝도다","밝은","정결하다"]·PT["e-limpo","e-puro-de","limpa","para-os-puros","pura","é-puro"]·RU["для-чистых","и-непорочный-","и-чист","чиста","чистая","чисты","ясная"]·ES["limpio","para-limpios-de","pura","puro","y-limpio","y-puro-de"]·SW["kwa-walio-safi","mteule","mwangavu","na-safi","na-usafi-wa","ni-tupu","safi"]·TR["için-pak-olanlar","saf","temiz","ve-saf-","ve-temiz"]·urd["اور-صاف","اور-پاک","خالص","صاف","لِ-پاکوں"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† II. בַּר adj. pure, clean, Jb 11:4 ψ 24:4; בָּר Pr 14:4; pl. cstr. בָּרֵי ψ 73:1; f. בָּרָה ψ 19:9 Ct 6:9, 10;— 1. pure, clear: בר לבב pure in heart ψ 24:4; ברי לבב ψ 73:1; a pure damsel Ct 6:9, 10, man Jb 11:4, commands of God ψ 19:9. 2. clean: אֵבוּס בָּר crib is clean Pr 14:4. 3. perhaps adv. נַשְּׁקוּ־בַר kiss purely, of sincere homage ψ 2:12 but cf. i. בַּר" dir="rtl" >בַּר, p. 135.