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; Exodus 39:38 Kt (Qr both חַֿיו needless); plural בְּרִיחִם Exodus 26:26 8t., בְּרִיחִים2Chron 14:6, בְּרִיחֵי Exodus 36:31 3t., בְּרִיחָ֑יִךְ Nahum 3:13, בְּרִיחָיו Exodus 40:18 7t. (+ Qr Exodus 35:11; Exodus 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); Exodus 26:28,29 (twice in verse); Exodus 35:11; Exodus 36:31,32 (twice in verse); Exodus 36:33,34 (twice in verse); Exodus 40:18; Numbers 3:36; Numbers 4:31 (all P).

b. bar (s) of city-gates Deuteronomy 3:5; Judges 16:8; 1 Samuel 23:7; 2Chronicles 8:5; 2 Chronicles 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, נחשׁת ׳ב 1 Kings 4:13, ברזל ׳ב Isaiah 45:2 (of Babylon, broken before Cyrus); בְּרִיחֶ֑הָ Isaiah 15:5 read probably with ᵑ7 Di and others ׳בָּר see בָּרִיחַ; yet compare Che's critical note

2 figurative בַּרְזָל ׳ב of distress, etc. Psalm 107:16; of fortress, אַרְמוֺן ׳ב 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; 2Chronicles 8:5; Ezekiel 38:11 Later plural Isaiah 45:2; Lamentations 2:9; 2Chron 14:6; Nehemiah 3:3,6,13,14,15; Psalm 147:13, but also Nahum 3:13.)