# \*bVraʾ- 'create'

A Proto-Semitic root the Linear A Lexicon's readings rest on.

- Author's gloss: to create; creator
- SED semet 1224
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/b/1173_create.md

## In Linear A

- [PU₂-RE-JA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/PU~E2~82~82-RE-JA/index.md>) (burē(t)yā): my Creatress (divine epithet)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Mandaic Aramaic: bra
- Hebrew: brʔ: bārāʾ qal (God the subject); nif.; bərîʾâ (Nu 16:30) (Sir 16:16) (HALOT 153, 156) (gloss withheld)
- Aramaic: bǝrā; bryh (DNWSI 198) (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: brā 'to create'; bāryā 'creator'; bārūyā 'the Creator'; bārāyā 'of the creator'; brītā 'a creature, the Creation'; bāryūtā 'creation, formation' (Payne Smith 55)
- Punic: brʾ (Biella 54)
- Judaic Aramaic: beraʾ (T 55)
- Amorite: baraʾ (Buck 2019, 325) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: brʔ [-a-] (Lane 178)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: Sab brʾ (B. Ašwal 1/2, 3; SD 30; Biella 54; Sabaweb lemma 3956) (gloss withheld)

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