bar (substantive):
(1) beriach = "a bolt" (Ex 26:26-29;35:11;36:31-34;39:33;40:18;Nu 3:36;4:31;De 3:5;Jud 16:3;1Sa 23:7;1Ki 4:13;2Ch 8:5;14:7;Ne 3:3,6,13-15;Job 38:10"bars and doors" for the sea (the bank or shore of the sea);Ps 107:16;147:13"the bars of thy gates": the walls of the city were now rebuilt and its gates only closed and barred by night (seeNe 7:3);Pr 18:19, "bars of a castle";Isa 45:2;Jer 49:31;51:30;La 2:9;Eze 38:11): meaning "a rock in the sea" (Jon 2:6).
(2) moT = "a staff," "stick," "pole" (Nu 4:10,12margin); "strong fortification and great impediment" (Isa 45:2;Am 1:5, "the bolt of Damascus": no need here to render prince, as some do (G. A. Smith in the place cited.)).
(3) badh = "staff," "part of body," "strength" (Job 17:16, "bars of Sheol": the gates of the world of the dead; compareIsa 38:10; some read, "Will the bars of Sheol fall?").
(4) meTil = "something hammered out, a (forged) bar" (Job 40:18).
Frank E. Hirsch