Strong's #1262: barah (pronounced baw-raw')

a primitive root; to select; also (as denominative from 1250) to feed; also (as equivalent to 1305) to render clear (Eccl. 3:18):--choose, (cause to) eat, manifest, (give) meat.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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bârâh

1) to eat, consume

1a) (Qal) to eat

1b) (Piel) for eating, devouring

1c) (Hiphil) to cause to eat

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 7 times:

 

1 Samuel 17:8: "and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to"
2 Samuel 3:35: "came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David"
2 Samuel 12:17: "but he would not, neither did he eat bread with"
2 Samuel 13:5: "let my sister Tamar come, and give and dress the meat"
2 Samuel 13:6: "me a couple in my sight, that I may eat at her hand."
2 Samuel 13:10: "Bring the meat into the chamber, that I may eat of thine hand. And Tamar took"
Lamentations 4:10: "have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people."