Baraq בָּרָק

Baraq (Hebrew בָּרָק, Strong's H1300) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “lightning”. It occurs 21 times in 21 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

H1300B: lightning

H1300A: to use lightning

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

Exodus

• Exodus 19:16
  And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning. A thick cloud was upon the mountain, and a very loud blast of the ram’s horn went out, so that all the people in the camp trembled.

Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy 32:41
  If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.when I sharpen My flashing sword, and My hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on My adversaries and repay those who hate Me.

2 Samuel

• 2 Samuel 22:15
  And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.

Job

• Job 20:25
  It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.It is drawn out of his back, the gleaming point from his liver. Terrors come over him.
• Job 38:35
  Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?

Psalms

• Psalm 18:14
  Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.
• Psalm 77:18
  The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.Your thunder resounded in the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.
• Psalm 97:4
  His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.His lightning illuminates the world; the earth sees and trembles.
• Psalm 135:7
  He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
• Psalm 144:6
  Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 10:13
  When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
• Jeremiah 51:16
  When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 1:13
  As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.In the midst of the living creatures was the appearance of glowing coals of fire, or of torches. Fire moved back and forth between the living creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it.
• Ezekiel 21:10
  It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.it is sharpened for the slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! Should we rejoice in the scepter of My son? The sword despises every such stick.
• Ezekiel 21:15
  I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.So that their hearts may melt and many may stumble, I have appointed at all their gates a sword for slaughter. Yes, it is ready to flash like lightning; it is drawn for slaughter.
• Ezekiel 21:28
  And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering:Now prophesy, son of man, and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says concerning the Ammonites and their contempt: ‘A sword! A sword is drawn for slaughter, polished to consume, to flash like lightning—

Daniel

• Daniel 10:6
  His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.His body was like beryl, his face like the brilliance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of polished bronze, and his voice like the sound of a multitude.

Nahum

• Nahum 2:4
  The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.The chariots dash through the streets; they rush around the plazas, appearing like torches, darting about like lightning.
• Nahum 3:3
  The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end— they stumble over their dead—

Habakkuk

• Habakkuk 3:11
  The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear.

Zechariah

• Zechariah 9:14
  And the Lord shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.Then the LORD will appear over them, and His arrow will go forth like lightning. The Lord GOD will sound the ram’s horn and advance in the whirlwinds of the south.

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).