Bar

King James Dictionary

B'AR, n. If these words are the Eng.bar, the sense is a shoot, that which shoots, passes or is driven.

1. A piece of wood,iron or other solid matte, long in proportion to its diameter, used for various purposes, but especially for a hindrance or obstruction as the bars of a fence or gate the bar of a door or hatchway. Numb.iii 36 Ex.xxvi 26 2. Any obstacle which obstructs, hinders or defends an obstruction a fortification.  Amos 1

Must I new bars to my own joy create.

3. The shore of the sea, which restrains its waters.  Job 38 4. The railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice. Hence the phrase, at the bar of the court, signifies in open court. Hence also licensed lawyers are called barristers and hence the whole body of lawyers licensed in a court, are customarily called the bar. A trial at bar, in England, is a trial in the courts of Westminster, opposed to a trial at Nisi Prius, in the circuits. 5. Figuratively, any tribunal as the bar of public opinion. Thus the final trial of men is called the bar of God. 6. The inclosed place of a tavern, inn or coffee house, where the landlord or his servant delivers out liquors,and waits upon customers. 7. A bank of sand, gravel or earth, forming a shoal at the 32

mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing entrance, or rendering it difficult.

8. A rock in the sea, according to Brown or any thing by which structure is held together, according to Johnson used in  Jonah 2 9. Any thing laid across another, as bars in heraldlry, stripes in color,and the like. 10. In the menage, the highest part of the place in a horse's mouth between the grinders and tusks, so that the part of the mouth which lies under and at the side of the bars, retains the name of the gum. The upper part of the gums, which bears no teeth, and to which the bit is applied. 11. In music, bars are lines drawn perpendicularly across the lines of the staff, including between each two, a certain quantity of time, or number of beats. 12. In law, a peremptory exception sufficient to destroy the plaintiff's action. It is divided into a bar to common intendment, and bar special bar temporary and bar perpetual. Bar to common intendment is an ordinary or general bar, which disables the declaration of the plaintiff. A special bar is more than ordinary, as a fine, release, or justification. A temporary bar is that which is good for a time, but may afterwards cease. A perpetual bar overthrows the action of the plaintiff forever. 13. A bar of gold or silver,is an ingot, lump or wedge, from the mines, run in a mold, and unwrought. A bar of iron is a long piece, wrought in the forge and hammered from a pig. 14. Among printers, the iron with a wooden handle,by which the screw of the press is turned. 15. In the African trade, a denomination of price payment formerly being made to the Africans in iron bars.

B'AR, To fasten with a bar as, to bar a door, or gate.

2. To hinder to obstruct, or prevent as, to bar the entrance of evil. 3. To prevent to exclude to hinder to make impracticable as, the distance between us bars our intercourse. In this sense, the phrase is often varied, thus the distance bars me from his aid, or bars him from my aid. 4. To prohibit to restrain or exclude by express or implied prohibition as, the statute bars my right the law bars the use of poisoned weapons. 5. To obstruct, prevent or hinder by any moral obstacle as, the right is barred by time, or by statute a release bars the plaintiff's recovery. 6. To except to exclude by exception as, I bar to night. 7. To cross with stripes of a different color. 8. To bar a vein, in farriery, is an operation upon the legs of a horse, or other parts, to stop malignant humors. This is done by opening the skin above a vein, disengaging it and tying it both above and below, and striking between the two ligatures. 9. To adorn with trappings a contraction of barb. See Barb.

33

Webster's Dictionary

(1): (n.) A drilling or tamping rod.

(2): (n.) A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door.

(3): (n.) An indefinite quantity of some substance, so shaped as to be long in proportion to its breadth and thickness; as, a bar of gold or of lead; a bar of soap.

(4): (n.) Anything which obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.

(5): (n.) A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation.

(6): (n.) Any railing that divides a room, or office, or hall of assembly, in order to reserve a space for those having special privileges; as, the bar of the House of Commons.

(7): (n.) The railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice. Hence, the phrase at the bar of the court signifies in open court.

(8): (n.) The place in court where prisoners are stationed for arraignment, trial, or sentence.

(9): (n.) The whole body of lawyers licensed in a court or district; the legal profession.

(10): (n.) A special plea constituting a sufficient answer to plaintiff's action.

(11): (n.) Any tribunal; as, the bar of public opinion; the bar of God.

(12): (n.) A barrier or counter, over which liquors and food are passed to customers; hence, the portion of the room behind the counter where liquors for sale are kept.

(13): (n.) An ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth part of the field.

(14): (n.) A broad shaft, or band, or stripe; as, a bar of light; a bar of color.

(15): (n.) A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures.

(16): (n.) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.

(17): (n.) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the center of the sole.

(18): (n.) A vein or dike crossing a lode.

(19): (n.) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.

(20): (n.) A slender strip of wood which divides and supports the glass of a window; a sash bar.

(21): (n.) To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate.

(22): (n.) To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; - sometimes with up.

(23): (n.) To except; to exclude by exception.

(24): (n.) To cross with one or more stripes or lines.

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Matthew 27:16-26 Acts 13:6 Matthew 16:17 Acts 4:36 Acts 9:27 Acts 1:23 Acts 15:22 Matthew 10:3 Acts 1:13 Mark 10:46Ben

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Nehemiah 3:3 Jonah 2:6 Job 38:10 Isaiah 45:2 Amos 1:5 1 Kings 4:13 Isaiah 45:2 Psalm 107:16 Nahum 3:13

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

BAR . Aram. [Note: Aramaic.] word for ‘son’; used, especially in NT times, as the first component of personal names, such as Bar-abbas, Bar-jesus, Bar-jonah, etc.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

A Chaldaic or Aramaic word ( Bar ) signifying 'son,' as 'Bar-jona,' son of Jona. It corresponds to Ben in Hebrew.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(properly בְּיַיחִ , Beri'Ach ) chiefly occurs in the following senses: that whereby a door is bolted and made fast ( Nehemiah 3:3); a narrow cross-board or rafter wherewith to fasten other boards ( Exodus 26:26); a rock in the sea ( Jonah 2:6); the bank or shore of the sea, which, as a bar, shuts up its waves in their own place ( Job 38:10); strong fortifications and powerful impediments are called bars, or bars of iron ( Isaiah 45:2;  Amos 1:5). (See Door).

another name of the Chaldsean god Bilgi.

(See Corn).

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature

Bar, a Hebrew word meaning son, but used only poetically in that language ( Psalms 2:12;  Proverbs 31:2). In Syriac, however, Bar answered to the more common Hebrew word for son, i.e. ben; and hence in later times, in the New Testament, it takes the same place in the formation of proper names which Ben had formerly occupied in the Old Testament.