Lexicon :: Strong's H953 - bôr

“So now, come on, let’s kill him and throw him into one of the pits.[fn] We can say that a vicious animal ate him. Then we’ll see what becomes of his dreams! ”

Reuben also said to them, “Don’t shed blood. Throw him into this pit in the wilderness, but don’t lay a hand on him” ​— ​intending to rescue him from them and return him to his father.

Then they took him and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty, without water.

When Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took Joseph to Egypt.

“For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing that they should put me in the dungeon.”[fn]

Then Pharaoh sent for Joseph, and they quickly brought him from the dungeon.[fn] He shaved, changed his clothes, and went to Pharaoh.

Now at midnight the LORD struck every firstborn male 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 dungeon, and every firstborn of the livestock.

“When a man uncovers a pit or digs a pit, and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

“A spring or cistern containing water will remain clean, but someone who touches a carcass in it will become unclean.

“houses full of every good thing that you did not fill them with, cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant ​— ​and when you eat and are satisfied,

The men of Israel saw that they were in trouble because the troops were in a difficult situation. They hid in caves, in thickets, among rocks, and in holes and cisterns.

Then Saul himself went to Ramah. He came to the large cistern at Secu and asked, “Where are Samuel and David? ”

“At Naioth in Ramah,” someone said.

Then Joab left David and sent messengers after Abner. They brought him back from the well[fn] of Sirah, but David was unaware of it.

Benaiah son of Jehoiada was the son of a brave man from Kabzeel, a man of many exploits. Benaiah killed two sons[fn] of Ariel[fn] of Moab, and he went down into a pit on a snowy day and killed a lion.

Then Jehu ordered, “Take them alive.” So they took them alive and then slaughtered them at the pit of Beth-eked ​— ​forty-two men. He didn’t spare any of them.

“Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: ‘Make peace[fn] with me and surrender to me. Then each of you may eat from his own vine and his own fig tree, and each may drink water from his own cistern

David was extremely thirsty[fn] and said, “If only someone would bring me water to drink from the well at the city gate of Bethlehem! ”

Benaiah son of Jehoiada was the son of a brave man[fn] from Kabzeel, a man of many exploits. Benaiah killed two sons of Ariel of Moab,[fn] and he went down into a pit on a snowy day and killed a lion.

Since he had many cattle both in the Judean foothills[fn] and the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many wells. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands.[fn]

They captured fortified cities and fertile land

and took possession of well-supplied houses,

cisterns cut out of rock, vineyards,

olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance.

They ate, were filled,

became prosperous, and delighted in your great goodness.

He dug a pit and hollowed it out

but fell into the hole he had made.

LORD, I call to you;

my rock, do not be deaf to me.

If you remain silent to me,

I will be like those going down to the Pit.

LORD, you brought me up from Sheol;

you spared me from among those

going down[fn] to the Pit.

He brought me up from a desolate[fn] pit,

out of the muddy clay,

and set my feet on a rock,

making my steps secure.

I am counted among those going down to the Pit.

I am like a man without strength,

You have put me in the lowest part of the Pit,

in the darkest places, in the depths.

Answer me quickly, LORD;

my spirit fails.

Don’t hide your face from me,

or I will be like those

going down to the Pit.

“Let’s swallow them alive, like Sheol,

whole, like those who go down to the Pit.

Drink water from your own cistern,

water flowing from your own well.

Someone burdened by bloodguilt[fn]

will be a fugitive until death.

Let no one help him.

before the silver cord is snapped,[fn]

and the gold bowl is broken,

and the jar is shattered at the spring,

and the wheel is broken into the well;

But you will be brought down to Sheol

into the deepest regions of the Pit.

But you are thrown out without a grave,

like a worthless branch,

covered by those slain with the sword

and dumped into a rocky pit like a trampled corpse.

They will be gathered together

like prisoners in a pit.

They will be confined to a dungeon;

after many days they will be punished.

Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: “Make peace[fn] with me and surrender to me. Then every one of you may eat from his own vine and his own fig tree and drink water from his own cistern

For Sheol cannot thank you;

Death cannot praise you.

Those who go down to the Pit

cannot hope for your faithfulness.

Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness,

you who seek the LORD:

Look to the rock from which you were cut,

and to the quarry from which you were dug.

As a well gushes out its water,

so she pours out her evil.[fn]

Violence and destruction resound in her.

Sickness and wounds keep coming to my attention.

So Jeremiah went into a cell in the dungeon and stayed there many days.

So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah the king’s son, which was in the guard’s courtyard, lowering Jeremiah with ropes. There was no water in the cistern, only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.

“My lord the king, these men have been evil in all they have done to the prophet Jeremiah. They have dropped him into the cistern where he will die from hunger, because there is no more bread in the city.”

They pulled him up with the ropes and lifted him out of the cistern, but he remained in the guard’s courtyard.

But when they came into the city, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the men with him slaughtered them and threw them into[fn] a cistern.

Now the cistern where Ishmael had thrown all the corpses of the men he had struck down was a large one[fn] that King Asa had made in the encounter with King Baasha of Israel. Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.