Jastrow: בָּרִי

בָּרִי, בָּרִיא m. (b. h.; v. בָּרָא) 1) in natural condition, whence (cmp. אֵיתָן) healthy, strong, stout, fat. B. Bath. 147ᵇ sq. (opp. sick). Y. Naz. VI, 55ᵇ top (opp. תש, of tender build); a. fr. —2) sound, sure, evident. Y. Succ. I, 52ᵇ top; Y. Pes. II, 29ᵇ bot. דבר ב׳ שלא וכ׳ it is sure that he did not &c.—ב׳ לי I am sure. Ḥull. 10ᵃ; a. fr.—ב׳ ושמא ‘sure’ and ‘perhaps’, the plea of two litigants, one asserting a certainty, the other pleading ignorance or offering a possible alternative. Keth. 12ᵇ; B. Mets. 37ᵇ; a. fr. —3) sound, firm. Cant. R. to III, 4 honey ב׳ כאבן as solid as a stone; a. fr.—Pl. בְּרִיאִים. Lev. R. s. 17 ב׳ כאולם as sound as the Temple hall.—Ḥull. 84ᵃ ממשפחת ב׳ of a healthy, stout family; a. fr.—Fem. בְּרִיאָה. Kidd. 71ᵇ בבל ב׳ Babylon is sound (as to purity of descent). Erub. 62ᵃ שכירות ב׳ a sound (legitimate) lease, opp. רעועה rickety; a. fr.—Y. Erub. I, 19ᵃ בְּרִיָּיה a strong, solid rafter.—Pl. בְּרִיאוֹת, בְּרִיּיוֹת. Ib. top ברויות ed. Krot. (corr. acc.).