In the beginning God Elohiym created the heaven and the earth. Gen 1:1.
The primitive root
Strong’s H1254 ברא bara, a primitive root meaning, “to create.” The ancient pictographs are bet + resh + aleph.
bet ב = the house, thus house, household, family, in, within
resh ר = the head of man, thus head, first, top, beginning, man
aleph א = the ox head, thus strength, power, leader
The story is of a family (bet) of heads (resh), i.e., grain, since the ripe head of a grain stalk is composed of a family of seed heads. Grain (bet + resh) is given to the ox (aleph) or cattle to fatten it for slaughter. According to the Ancient Hebrew Lexicon, this fattening or filling is the sense used of God in filling His creation with light, heaven, earth, sun, stars, land, seas, plants, animals, and man.