This word appears in Psalm 69:21, in a lament of the suffering righteous: 'They gave me poison for my food' (be-varuti). The noun 'barut' means food or nourishment, related to the root 'to eat' or 'to consume.' With the preposition 'for' and first-person suffix 'my,' it describes what should have been sustenance but became poisoning. The psalm is messianic, later applied to Christ's passion (vinegar and gall). The replacement of nourishing food with poison epitomizes the reversal of care into cruelty.