Lexicon :: Strong's H953 - bôr

Then Pharaoh sent and called for Joseph, and they hurriedly brought him out of the dungeon; and when Joseph shaved himself and changed his clothes [making himself presentable], he came to Pharaoh.

Now it happened at midnight that the LORD struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the [fn]dungeon, and all the firstborn of the cattle.

“If a man leaves a pit open, or digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

When Joab left David, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah; but David knew nothing [about Joab’s action].

Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many notable acts, killed two [famous] warriors of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit on a snowy day.

Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a courageous man of Kabzeel who had done great things, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. Also he went down and killed a lion in a pit on a snowy day.

“They captured fortified cities and a fertile land.

They took possession of houses full of all good things,

Hewn cisterns, vineyards, olive groves,

And [fn]fruit trees in abundance.

So they ate and were filled and became fat,

And they reveled and were delighted in Your great goodness.

He has dug a pit and hollowed it out,

And has fallen into the [very] pit which he made [as a trap].

A Psalm of David.

To you I call, O LORD,

My rock, do not be deaf to me,

For if You are silent to me,

I will become like those who go down to the pit (grave).

O LORD, You have brought my life up from Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead);

You have kept me alive, so that I would not go down to the pit (grave).

He brought me up out of a horrible pit [of tumult and of destruction], out of the miry clay,

And He set my feet upon a rock, steadying my footsteps and establishing my path.

I am counted among those who go down to the pit (grave);

I am like a man who has no strength [a mere shadow],

You have laid me in the lowest pit,

In dark places, in the depths.

Answer me quickly, O LORD, my spirit fails;

Do not hide Your face from me,

Or I will become like those who go down into the pit (grave).

Let us swallow them alive like Sheol (the place of the dead),

Even whole, as those who go down to the pit [of death];

[fn]Drink water from your own [fn]cistern [of a pure marriage relationship]

And fresh running water from your own well.

A man who is burdened with the guilt of human blood (murder)

Will be a fugitive until death; let no one support him or give him refuge.

“But [in fact] you will be brought down to Sheol,

To the remote recesses of the pit (the region of the dead).

“But you [king of Babylon] have been cast out of your tomb (denied burial)

Like a rejected branch,

Clothed with the slain who are pierced by the sword,

Who go down to the stones of the pit [into which carcasses are thrown],

Like a dead body trampled [underfoot].

They will be gathered together

As prisoners [are gathered] in a dungeon;

They will be shut up in prison,

And after many days they will be visited and punished.

“For Sheol cannot praise or thank You,

Death cannot praise You and rejoice in You;

Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.

“Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness (right standing with God),

Who seek and inquire of the LORD:

Look to the rock from which you were cut

And to the excavation of the quarry from which you were dug.

“As a fountain springs up and pours out its fresh waters,

So she [continually] pours out her fresh wickedness.

Violence and destruction are heard inside her [walls];

Sickness and wounds are always before Me.

Now the cistern into which Ishmael had thrown all the corpses of the men whom he had killed along with Gedaliah was the one which King Asa [of Judah] had made [about three hundred years earlier] on account of King Baasha of Israel [believing that Baasha would lay siege to Mizpah]. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with [the bodies of] those who were killed.