Bari בָּרִיא

Bari (Hebrew בָּרִיא, Strong's H1277) is a Hebrew adjective meaning “fat”. It occurs 13 times in 13 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Bari, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

• Genesis 41:2
  And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow.when seven cows, sleek and well-fed, came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds.
• Genesis 41:4
  And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.And the cows that were sickly and thin devoured the seven sleek, well-fed cows. Then Pharaoh woke up,
• Genesis 41:5
  And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.but he fell back asleep and dreamed a second time: Seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, came up on one stalk.
• Genesis 41:7
  And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.And the thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven plump, ripe ones. Then Pharaoh awoke and realized it was a dream.
• Genesis 41:18
  And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:when seven cows, well-fed and sleek, came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds.
• Genesis 41:20
  And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:Then the thin, ugly cows devoured the seven well-fed cows that were there first.

Judges

• Judges 3:17
  And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man.and brought the tribute to Eglon king of Moab, who was an obese man.

1 Kings

• 1 Kings 4:23
  Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.ten fat oxen, twenty range oxen, and a hundred sheep, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened poultry.

Psalms

• Psalm 73:4
  For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.They have no struggle in their death; their bodies are well-fed.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 34:3
  Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.You eat the fat, wear the wool, and butcher the fattened sheep, but you do not feed the flock.

Daniel

• Daniel 1:15
  And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king’s meat.And at the end of ten days, they looked healthier and better nourished than all the young men who were eating the king’s food.

Habakkuk

• Habakkuk 1:16
  Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet and burns incense to his fishing net, for by these things his portion is sumptuous and his food is rich.

Zechariah

• Zechariah 11:16
  For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will neither care for the lost, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the choice sheep and tear off their hooves.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).