Lexicon :: Strong's H1254 - bārā'

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.[fn]

So God created the large sea-creatures and every living creature that moves and swarms in the water, according to their kinds. He also created every winged creature according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

So God created man in his own image;

he created him in the image of God;

he created them male and female.

God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, for on it he rested from all his work of creation.

This is the document containing the family[fn] records of Adam.[fn] On the day that God created man,[fn] he made him in the likeness of God;

Then the LORD said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I created, off the face of the earth, together with the animals, creatures that crawl, and birds of the sky ​— ​for I regret that I made them.”

And the LORD responded, “Look, I am making a covenant. In the presence of all your people I will perform wonders that have never been done[fn] in the whole earth or in any nation. All the people you live among will see the LORD’s work, for what I am doing with you is awe-inspiring.

“But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them along with all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have despised the LORD.”

“Indeed, ask about the earlier days that preceded you, from the day God created mankind[fn] on the earth and from one end of the heavens to the other: Has anything like this great event ever happened, or has anything like it been heard of?

“If you have so many people,” Joshua replied to them, “go to the forest and clear an area for yourselves there in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, because Ephraim’s hill country is too small for you.”

“because the hill country will be yours also. It is a forest; clear it and its outlying areas will be yours. You can also drive out the Canaanites, even though they have iron chariots and are strong.”

“Why, then, do all of you despise my sacrifices and offerings that I require at the place of worship? You have honored your sons more than me, by making yourselves fat with the best part of all of the offerings of my people Israel.’

God, create a clean heart for me

and renew a steadfast[fn] spirit within me.

North and south ​— ​you created them.

Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at your name.

Remember how short my life is.

Have you created everyone for nothing?

This will be written for a later generation,

and a people who have not yet been created will praise the LORD:

When you send your breath,[fn]

they are created,

and you renew the surface of the ground.

Let them praise the name of the LORD,

for he commanded, and they were created.

So remember your Creator in the days of your youth:

Before the days of adversity come,

and the years approach when you will say,

“I have no delight in them”;

Then the LORD will create a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night over the entire site of Mount Zion and over its assemblies. For there will be a canopy over all the glory,[fn]

Look up and see!

Who created these?

He brings out the stars by number;

he calls all of them by name.

Because of his great power and strength,

not one of them is missing.

Do you not know?

Have you not heard?

The LORD is the everlasting God,

the Creator of the whole earth.

He never becomes faint or weary;

there is no limit to his understanding.

so that all may see and know,

consider and understand,

that the hand of the LORD has done this,

the Holy One of Israel has created it.

This is what God, the LORD, says —

who created the heavens and stretched them out,

who spread out the earth and what comes from it,

who gives breath to the people on it

and spirit to those who walk on it —

Now this is what the LORD says —

the one who created you, Jacob,

and the one who formed you, Israel —

“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;

I have called you by your name; you are mine.

“everyone who bears my name

and is created for my glory.

I have formed them; indeed, I have made them.”

I am the LORD, your Holy One,

the Creator of Israel, your King.

“I form light and create darkness,

I make success and create disaster;

I am the LORD, who does all these things.

“I made the earth,

and created humans on it.

It was my hands that stretched out the heavens,

and I commanded everything in them.

For this is what the LORD says —

the Creator of the heavens,

the God who formed the earth and made it,

the one who established it

(he did not create it to be a wasteland,

but formed it to be inhabited) —

he says, “I am the LORD,

and there is no other.

“They have been created now, and not long ago;

you have not heard of them before today,

so you could not claim, ‘I already knew them! ’

“Look, I have created the craftsman

who blows on the charcoal fire

and produces a weapon suitable for its task;

and I have created the destroyer to cause havoc.

“creating words of praise.”[fn]

The LORD says,

“Peace, peace to the one who is far or near,

and I will heal him.

“For I will create new heavens and a new earth;

the past events will not be remembered or come to mind.

How long will you turn here and there,

faithless daughter?

For the LORD creates something new in the land[fn] —

a female[fn] will shelter[fn] a man.

“Now you, son of man, mark out two roads that the sword of Babylon’s king can take. Both of them should originate from the same land. And make a signpost at the fork in the road to each city.

“ ‘Return it to its sheath!

“ ‘I will judge you[fn]

in the place where you were created,

in the land of your origin.

“The assembly will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn their houses.

“You were in Eden, the garden of God.

Every kind of precious stone covered you:

carnelian, topaz, and diamond,[fn]

beryl, onyx, and jasper,

lapis lazuli, turquoise[fn] and emerald.[fn]

Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold;

they were prepared on the day you were created.

“From the day you were created

you were blameless in your ways

until wickedness was found in you.

He is here:

the one who forms the mountains,

creates the wind,

and reveals his thoughts to man,

the one who makes the dawn out of darkness

and strides on the heights of the earth.

The LORD, the God of Armies, is his name.

Don’t all of us have one Father? Didn’t one God create us? Why then do we act treacherously against one another, profaning the covenant of our ancestors?