STRONGS NUMBER H1280

H1280. beriach

בְּרִיחַ‎ noun masculine bar (compare Assyrian burû—u, spearshaft, spear, COT^Gloss) — בְּרִיחַ‎ Deuteronomy 3:5 11t. (construct Amos 1:5 etc.); בְּרִיחוֺ‎ Exodus 35:11; 39:38 Kt (Qr both חַֿיו‎ needless); plural בְּרִיחִם‎ 26:26 8t., בְּרִיחִים‎2 Chronicles 14:6, בְּרִיחֵי‎ Exodus 36:31 3t., בְּרִיחָ֑יִךְ‎ Nahum 3:13, בְּרִיחָיו‎ Exodus 40:18 7t. (+ Qr 35:11; 39:33), בְּרִיחֶיהָ‎ Jeremiah 51:30; Lamentations 2:9, בְּרִחֶיהָ‎ Jonah 2:7, בְּרִיחֶ֑הָ‎ Isaiah 15:5 but compare below; —

1. a. bar, of wood, joining boards of tabernacle Exodus 26:26-27, (twice in verse); 26:28-29, (twice in verse); 35:11; 36:31-32, (twice in verse); 36:33-34, (twice in verse); 40:18; Numbers 3:36; 4:31 (all P).

b. bar (s) of city-gates Deuteronomy 3:5; Judges 16:8; 1 Samuel 23:7; 2 Chronicles 8:5; 14:6; id. of gates of Jerusalem Lamentations 2:9; also ("" מנעולים‎) Nehemiah 3:3, 6, 18, 14, 15 compare Psalm 147:13; compare Amos 1:5; Nahum 3:13; Jeremiah 49:31; Ezekiel 38:11; Jeremiah 51:30; bars of city-gates, ׳ב נחשׁת‎ 1 Kings 4:13, ׳ב ברזל‎ Isaiah 45:2 (of Babylon, broken before Cyrus); בְּרִיחֶ֑הָ‎ 15:5 read probably with ᵑ7‎ Di and others ׳בָּר‎ see בָּרִיחַ‎; yet compare Che's critical note

2 figurative ׳ב בַּרְזָל‎ of distress, etc. Psalm 107:16; of fortress, ׳ב אַרְמוֺן‎ in simile Proverbs 18:19; figurative ׳ב‎ of earth (pictured as house out of which Jonah is shut) Jonah 2:7. (Older usage singular of bar of door or gate, i.e. the great bar across the gate; so Deuteronomy 3:5; Judges 16:3; Amos 1:5; 1 Samuel 23:7; 1 Kings 4:13; Jeremiah 49:31; Proverbs 18:9; Job 38:10; 2 Chronicles 8:5; Ezekiel 38:11 Later plural Isaiah 45:2; Lamentations 2:9; 2 Chronicles 14:6; Nehemiah 3:3, 6, 13, 14, 15; Psalm 147:13, but also Nahum 3:13.)