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The words that are translated from bawraw are underlined. As may be seen, the meanings are not the same as the usual meaning of bawraw as create, so these instances are not included in the statistics.
“And Joshua said to them, ‘If you are a numerous people, go up by yourselves to the forest, and there clear ground for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you’” (Joshua 17:15).
“But the hill country shall be yours, for though it is a forest, you shall clear it and possess it to its farthest borders. For you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong” (Joshua 17:18).
“Why then do you scorn my sacrifices and my offerings that I commanded for my dwelling, and honor your sons above me by fattening yourselves on the choicest parts of every offering of my people Israel?” (1 Samuel 2:29)
“As for you, son of man, mark two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come. Both of them shall come from the same land. And make a signpost; make it at the head of the way to a city” (Ezekiel 21:19).
“And the host shall stone them and cut them down with their swords. They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses” (Ezekiel 23:47).
66Hebrew has seven verb patterns or conjugations. The Kal is the simple active form, the Niphal the simple passive form.
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