Proto-Semitic root
*bVraʾ-
‘create’
di Mino’s gloss: to create; creator
Record 1173 ↗ · SED semet 1224 · Basis: SED
In Linear A1 entry
Reflexes9 languages
Northwest Semitic7
- Mandaic Aramaicbra
- Hebrewbrʔ: bārāʾ qal (God the subject)nif.bərîʾâ (Nu 16:30) (Sir 16:16) (HALOT 153, 156)gloss withheld
- Aramaicbǝrābryh (DNWSI 198)gloss withheld
- Syrian Aramaicbrā ‘to create’bāryā ‘creator’bārūyā ‘the Creator’bārāyā ‘of the creator’brītā ‘a creature, the Creation’bāryūtā ‘creation, formation’ (Payne Smith 55)
- Punicbrʾ (Biella 54)
- Judaic Aramaicberaʾ (T 55)
- Amoritebaraʾ (Buck 2019, 325)gloss withheld
Arabic1
- Arabicbrʔ [-a-] (Lane 178)
Epigraphic South Arabian1
- Epigraphic South ArabianSab brʾ (B. Ašwal 1/2, 3; SD 30; Biella 54; Sabaweb lemma 3956)gloss withheld
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.