Words the Bible translates as bear
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 14 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- poieōποιέωto bring something about: to make a thing or to do a deed, so that something now exists or has happened that did not before.
- nasaנָשָׂאto carry or bear a load: to hold up what has been lifted and move it
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- to lift or raise something up: to take it from where it rests and hold it higher
- to bear guilt or its punishment: to carry the weight of a wrong
- to forgive: to lift guilt off a person so it no longer rests on them
- yaladיָלַדto bring a child into the world: to give birth to, to father, or to be born
- pherōφέρωto bear: to carry someone or something to where it is going, in any sense from lifting a load to producing fruit to enduring a burden
- gennaōγεννάωto bring a child into the world: of a father, to father a child; of a mother, to give birth; of a child, to be born
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- in a spiritual sense, to bring into a new life or standing: God giving someone new birth, God declaring a Son, or a teacher fathering a convert
- kulכּוּלto bear up under something overwhelming: to be able to endure or withstand it.
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- to provide for and keep someone alive: to supply food and support so a person or people can survive.
- to contain or hold a quantity: to have room enough to keep something inside.
- to measure out a quantity: to gauge how much something amounts to.
- bastazōβαστάζωto bear the weight of something: to carry, lift, or hold it up
- arktosἄρκτοςbearnot studied yet
- dovדֹּבbear: the brown bear of ancient Israel, the animal the Bible reaches for when it pictures raw, unreasoning fury, above all a mother robbed of her cubs
- savalסָבַלto bear a heavy load: to take a weight onto your own shoulders or back and go on holding it up
- amasעָמַסto load: to pile a weight onto a back, or to take that weight up and carry it
- ayishעַיִשׁBearnot studied yet
- dovדֹּבbearnot studied yet
- sevalסְבַלto bearnot studied yet
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