Lexicon
בְּעֵרָה
be.e.rah
H1200
H:N-F Hebrew

fire

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Occurrences
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Books
Hebrew
Language

be.e.rah denotes fire in the setting of damage to another person's field or vineyard.

The single attested use places fire within a case of harm to another person's cultivated land, alongside the requirement to make restitution.

Senses in use

  1. Fire in a damage case · dominant

    In Exodus 22:5, the singular absolute noun occurs in a rule about another person's field or vineyard and the obligation to make restitution; the APB renders the verse as a case in which cattle graze another field.

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Exodus 22:5, the APB presents the verse through grazing cattle and restitution rather than an explicit English term for the noun; Its specific rendering is unclear.

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