Lexicon
בַּר
bar
H1247
A:N-M Hebrew

son

8
Occurrences
2
Books
Hebrew
Language

bar identifies a male in relation to a named figure or group, including human family lines and descriptive expressions.

The attested uses mark a male in relation to another person, a group, or a descriptive expression: named family connections occur in Ezra 5:1, Ezra 5:2, Ezra 6:14, and Daniel 5:22, while Daniel 3:25 and Daniel 7:13 use the same construct form in expressions rendered with “son.” Daniel 6:1 has the same decoded construct morphology, but the supplied translation does not make this term’s specific contribution clear.

Senses in use

  1. Male identified in relation to another · dominant

    All supplied tokens are decoded as common masculine singular construct nouns. In Ezra 5:1, Ezra 5:2, and Ezra 6:14, the APB renders clauses identifying Zechariah, Zerubbabel, and Jeshua in relation to named persons; Daniel 5:22 likewise addresses Belshazzar as related to another figure. Daniel 3:25 and Daniel 7:13 place the form in descriptive expressions rendered “a son of the gods” and “a son of man”; in Daniel 6:1, the translation’s clause about Darius’s appointments does not isolate the term’s contribution.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the construct expression with “son,” including named identifications in Ezra 5:1, Ezra 5:2, Ezra 6:14, and Daniel 5:22, and descriptive phrases in Daniel 3:25 and Daniel 7:13. Daniel 6:1 does not show a corresponding English rendering clearly.

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