The only "bara" appears in verse one when God creates the "heavens and the earth". Verse three announces not the creation of light but rather its arrival through the thinning cloud layer at the earth's surface.
Interesting. The Kabbalists attribute it to G-d’s contraction of His “light” (envision the “Godhead,” and the “infinite light” it must emanate) into the light of creation of our world(s) (meaning, spiritual, the realms of angels and demons, down to our physical world— the “lowest” world, the physical.)
Since you parse the Hebrew (bara...etc) Did you know that the Hebrew Bible is riddled with grammatical “mistakes?” The very first word Bereishit (”in the beginning”) is in construct form (the “t” sound at the end) and demands the next word be a noun. However the next word in Hebrew is “bara”. The text in Hebrew reads “In the beginning OF _____ He created the heavens and the earth.” There is an unanswered pregnant pause. So since G-d knows grammar, there must be an interpretation, like every seeming mistake in the Hebrew grammar— and there are many examples.
And he did....the "Big Bang" simply describes HOW He did it. "Light" turns out to be the active agent. What was left over is what reached the earth later.