The following is an … analysis of bara (Genesis 1,1, “Im Anfang schuf …”);
it has two meanings (…)
the meaning is ‘to cut’ and ‘to place succinct bounds = bündige Grenzen/Markierungen setzen’.
And the intelligent will understand.
R. Abraham ibn Ezra‘ Commentary on the Creation, ed. Linetzky, p. 4ff.
