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Lexicon :: Strong's H953 - bôr

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בּוֹר
Transliteration
bôr
Pronunciation
bore
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From בּוּר (H952) (in the sense of בֹּאר (H877))
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 194e

Strong’s Definitions

בּוֹר bôwr, bore; from H952 (in the sense of H877); a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison):—cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 69x

The KJV translates Strong's H953 in the following manner: pit (42x), cistern (4x), dungeon (11x), well (9x), dungeon (with H1004) (2x), fountain (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 69x
The KJV translates Strong's H953 in the following manner: pit (42x), cistern (4x), dungeon (11x), well (9x), dungeon (with H1004) (2x), fountain (1x).

  1. pit, well, cistern

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
בּוֹר bôwr, bore; from H952 (in the sense of H877); a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison):—cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well.
STRONGS H953: Abbreviations
† בּוֺר noun masculineGenesis 37:20 pit, cistern, well (= בְּאֹר, MI בר, Arabic bdb009201 hole or hollow for cooking, Assyrian bûrtum DlPr 182, bûru LotzTP 169) — בּ׳ absolute Genesis 37:22 +; בֹּר Exodus 21:33 (2 Samuel 23:20 Qr, see באר above); construct בּוֺר 2 Kings 10:14 + (2 Samuel 23:15, 16 Qr, see באר above); בֹּ֫רָה (ָ  ה locative) Genesis 37:24; suffix בּוֺרוֺ Isaiah 36:16 = בֹּרוֺ 2 Kings 18:31; בּוֺרֶ֑ךָ Proverbs 5:15; plural בֹּרוֺת Genesis 37:20 + 3 times; בֹּרֹת Deuteronomy 6:11: —
1. cistern, containing water, made by digging (חצב) Deuteronomy 6:11; 2 Chronicles 26:10; Nehemiah 9:25; also (without reference to origin) Proverbs 5:15 (|| בְּאֵר) Leviticus 11:36 (|| מַעִיָן), 1 Samuel 19:22; Isaiah 36:16 = 2 Kings 18:31.
2. later apparently well (= בְּאֵר) 1 Chronicles 11:17, 18 — 2 Samuel 23:15, 2 Samuel 23:16 (yet now no well at Bethlehem RobBR i. 470, 473 compare also Surveyiii. 28 GuérinJudée i. 130), compare Ecclesiastes 12:6 & Jeremiah 6:7 Kt כְּהָקִיר בו֯ר מֵימֶיהָ as a well casteth out its water (Qr בַּיִר); but הקיר perhaps keep cool, fresh Greek Version of the LXX Vulgate Hi Gf.
3. pit Exodus 21:33 (verb פתח), Exodus 21:33 (כרה), compare Exodus 21:34; compare figurative Psalm 7:16 of wickedness (|| שַׁחַת; verb כרה, חפר); 1 Samuel 13:6 as hiding-place; 2 Samuel 23:20 (Qr) = 1 Chronicles 11:22; 2 Kings 10:14 בּוֺר בֵּית עֵ֫קֶד; of pit into which Joseph was cast Genesis 37:20, Genesis 37:22, Genesis 37:24 (וְהַבּוֺר רֵק אֵין בּוֺ מ֑יִם) Genesis 37:28; Genesis 37:29; Genesis 37:29 (JE), compare further Jeremiah 41:7, Jeremiah 41:9; figurative of Sarah as mother of Israel מַקֶּבֶת בּ׳ Isaiah 51:1; figurative of calamity Psalm 40:3 בּוֺר שָׁאוֺן; compare Psalm 88:7 תַּחְתִּיּוֺת בּ׳.
4. dungeon (pit with no water in it Jeremiah 38:6; Zechariah 9:11 compare Genesis 37:24 above) Genesis 40:13; Genesis 41:14 (E) Isaiah 24:22; Jeremiah 38:6 (twice in verse) (אֵין מַיִם בּ׳) Jeremiah 38:7; Jeremiah 38:9; Jeremiah 38:10; Jeremiah 38:11; Jeremiah 38:13; also בֵּית הַבּוֺר prison Exodus 12:29; Jeremiah 37:16; figurative of exile Zechariah 9:11 (מִבּוֺר אֵין מַיִם בּוֺ); compare also Lamentations 3:53, Lamentations 3:55.
5. (in poetry & late; never with article) pit of the grave Proverbs 28:17; so אַבְנֵי ב׳ stones of the pit Isaiah 14:19 (of sepulchre, walled with stones) & of She’ôl Psalm 30:4 (|| שׁאול); יַרְכְּתֵי ב׳ loins of (the) pit, i.e. remotest pit Isaiah 14:15 (|| שׁאול) Ezekiel 32:23 especially in phrase יוֺרְדֵי בוֺר those going down to (the) pit Psalm 28:1; Psalm 143:7; Isaiah 38:18; Ezekiel 26:20; Ezekiel 32:25, Ezekiel 32:29, Ezekiel 32:30; also, (|| שׁאול), Psalm 88:5; Proverbs 1:12; further Ezekiel 26:20; Ezekiel 32:18, Ezekiel 32:24 (all || אֶרֶץ תַּחְתִּיּוֺת), Ezekiel 31:14, Ezekiel 31:16 (both || אֶרֶץ תַּחְתִּית; Ezekiel 31:14 || also מָוֶת, Ezekiel 31:16 שְׁאוֺל).

בַּיִר Qr Jeremiah 6:7 see בּוֺר above.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

37:20; 37:20; 37:20; 37:22; 37:22; 37:24; 37:24; 37:24; 37:28; 37:29; 37:29; 40:13; 41:14

Exodus

12:29; 21:33; 21:33; 21:33; 21:34

Leviticus

11:36

Deuteronomy

6:11; 6:11

1 Samuel

13:6; 19:22

2 Samuel

23:15; 23:15; 23:16; 23:16; 23:20; 23:20

2 Kings

10:14; 10:14; 18:31; 18:31

1 Chronicles

11:17; 11:18; 11:22

2 Chronicles

26:10

Nehemiah

9:25

Psalms

7:16; 28:1; 30:4; 40:3; 88:5; 88:7; 143:7

Proverbs

1:12; 5:15; 5:15; 28:17

Ecclesiastes

12:6

Isaiah

14:15; 14:19; 24:22; 36:16; 36:16; 38:18; 51:1

Jeremiah

6:7; 6:7; 37:16; 38:6; 38:6; 38:7; 38:9; 38:10; 38:11; 38:13; 41:7; 41:9

Lamentations

3:53; 3:55

Ezekiel

26:20; 26:20; 31:14; 31:14; 31:16; 31:16; 32:18; 32:23; 32:24; 32:25; 32:29; 32:30

Zechariah

9:11; 9:11

H953

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Strong's Number H953 matches the Hebrew בּוֹר (bôr),
which occurs 68 times in 62 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 37:20–Jer 41:9)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:20 - Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:22 - Re'uven said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him" - that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:24 - and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:28 - Midyanim who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Yosef out of the pit, and sold Yosef to the Yishme`elim for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Yosef into Mitzrayim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:29 - Re'uven returned to the pit; and saw that Yosef wasn't in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:15 - For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:14 - Then Par`oh sent and called Yosef, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Par`oh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:29 - It happened at midnight, that the LORD struck all the firstborn in the land of Mitzrayim, from the firstborn of Par`oh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:33 - "If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn't cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:34

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:34 - the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:36 - Nevertheless a spring or a cistern in which water is a gathered shall be clean: but that which touches their carcass shall be unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:11 - and houses full of all good things, which you didn't fill, and cisterns dug out, which you didn't dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you didn't plant, and you shall eat and be full;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 13:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:6 - When the men of Yisra'el saw that they were in a strait (for the people were distressed), then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in coverts, and in pits.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 19:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:22 - Then went he also to Ramah, and came to the great well that is in Sekhu: and he asked and said, Where are Shemu'el and David? One said, Behold, they are at Nayot in Ramah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:26 - When Yo'av was come out from David, he sent messengers after Aviner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah: but David didn't know it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 23:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:20 - Benayah the son of Yehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kavtz'el, who had done mighty deeds, he killed the two sons of Ari'el of Mo'av: he went down also and killed a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:14 - He said, Take them alive. They took them alive, and killed them at the pit of the shearing-house, even two and forty men; neither left he any of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:31 - Don't listen to Hizkiyahu: for thus says the king of Ashshur, Make your shalom with me, and come out to me; and eat you everyone of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and everyone drink the waters of his own cistern;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 11:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:17 - David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me water to drink of the well of Beit-Lechem, which is by the gate!

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 11:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:18 - The three broke through the host of the Pelishtim, and drew water out of the well of Beit-Lechem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 11:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:22 - Benayah the son of Yehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kavtz'el, who had done mighty deeds, he killed the two sons of Ari'el of Mo'av: he went down also and killed a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 26:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:10 - He built towers in the wilderness, and hewed out many cisterns, for he had much cattle; in the lowland also, and in the plain: and he had farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields; for he loved farming.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:25 - They took fortified cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns hewn out, vineyards, and olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance: so they ate, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:15 - He has dug a hole, And has fallen into the pit which he made.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 28:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 28:1 - By David. To you, LORD, I call. My rock, don't be deaf to me; Lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:3 - LORD, you have brought up my soul from She'ol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 40:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:2 - He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, Out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, And gave me a firm place to stand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 88:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:4 - I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 88:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:6 - You have laid me in the lowest pit, In the darkest depths.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 143:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:7 - Hurry to answer me, LORD. My spirit fails. Don't hide your face from me, So that I don't become like those who go down into the pit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:12 - Let's swallow them up alive like She'ol, And whole, like those who go down into the pit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:15 - Drink water out of your own cistern, Running water out of your own well.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 28:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:17 - A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; No one will support him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:6 - Before the silver cord is severed, Or the golden bowl is broken, Or the pitcher is broken at the spring, Or the wheel broken at the cistern,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:15 - Yet you shall be brought down to She'ol, to the uttermost parts of the pit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:19 - But you are cast forth away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:22 - They shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison; and after many days shall they be visited.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 36:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:16 - Don't listen to Hizkiyahu: for thus says the king of Ashshur, Make your shalom with me, and come out to me; and eat you everyone of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and drink you everyone the waters of his own cistern;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 38:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:18 - For She'ol can't praise you, death can't celebrate you: Those who go down into the pit can't hope for your truth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 51:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:1 - Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the LORD: look to the rock whence you were hewn, and to the hold of the pit whence you were dug.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:7 - As a well casts forth its waters, so she casts forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 37:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:16 - When Yirmeyahu was come into the dungeon-house, and into the cells, and Yirmeyahu had remained there many days;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 38:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:6 - Then took they Yirmeyahu, and cast him into the dungeon of Malkiyah the king's son, that was in the court of the guard: and they let down Yirmeyahu with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Yirmeyahu sank in the mire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 38:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:7 - Now when `Eved-Melekh the Kushite, a eunuch, who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Yirmeyahu in the dungeon (the king then sitting in the gate of Binyamin,)

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 38:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:9 - My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Yirmeyahu the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 38:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:10 - Then the king commanded `Eved-Melekh the Kushite, saying, Take from hence thirty men with you, and take up Yirmeyahu the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 38:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:11 - So `Eved-Melekh took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took there rags and worn-out garments, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Yirmeyahu.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 38:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:13 - So they drew up Yirmeyahu with the cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Yirmeyahu remained in the court of the guard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 41:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:7 - It was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that Yishma'el the son of Netanyah killed them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he, and the men who were with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 41:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:9 - Now the pit in which Yishma'el cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had killed, by the side of Gedalyahu (the same was who which Asa the king had made for fear of Ba`sha king of Yisra'el,) Yishma'el the son of Netanyah filled it with those who were killed.

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