Strong's #1305: barar (pronounced baw-rar')

a primitive root; to clarify (i.e. brighten), examine, select:--make bright, choice, chosen, cleanse (be clean), clearly, polished, (shew self) pure(-ify), purge (out).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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bârar

1) to purify, select, polish, choose, purge, cleanse or make bright, test or prove

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to purge, purge out, purify

1a2) to choose, select

1a3) to cleanse, make shining, polish

1a4) to test, prove

1b) (Niphal) to purify oneself

1c) (Piel) to purify

1d) (Hiphil)

1d1) to purify

1d2) to polish arrows

1e) (Hithpael)

1e1) to purify oneself

1e2) to show oneself pure, just, kind

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 17 times:

 

2 Samuel 22:27: "With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt show thyself unsavory."
1 Chronicles 7:40: "heads of their father's house, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes."
1 Chronicles 9:22: "All these which were chosen in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These"
1 Chronicles 16:41: "them Heman and the rest that were chosen, who were expressed by name, to give thanks"
Nehemiah 5:18: "for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared"
Job 33:3: "and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly."
Psalms 18:26: "With the pure and with the froward thou wilt show thyself froward."
Psalms 18:26: "With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt show thyself froward."
Ecclesiastes 3:18: "of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts."
Isaiah 49:2: "of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid"
Isaiah 52:11: "no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels"
Jeremiah 4:11: "not to fan, nor to cleanse,"
Jeremiah 51:11: " Make bright the arrows; the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit"
Ezekiel 20:38: " And I will purge out from and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country"
Daniel 11:35: "them of understanding to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end:"
Daniel 12:10: "Many shall be purified, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none"
Zephaniah 3:9: "to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name"