בּוֹר
bôwr
Meaning
“pit”
BDB pit, well, cistern
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62
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18 books · uncommon
Hebrew Bible
First appears: Genesis 37:20
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בּוֹר
8 books
Genesis 37:20
הַ/בֹּר֔וֹת
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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Exodus 12:29
הַ/בּ֑וֹר
It happened at midnight, that Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh 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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Deuteronomy 6:11
וּ/בֹרֹ֤ת
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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1 Samuel 13:6
וּ/בַ/בֹּרֽוֹת
When the men of Israel 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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1 Chronicles 11:17
מִ/בּ֥וֹר
David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me water to drink of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!
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2 Chronicles 26:10
בֹּר֣וֹת
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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Ecclesiastes 12:6
הַ/בּֽוֹר
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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Ezekiel 26:20
ב֜וֹר ב֔וֹר
then will I bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you to dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living:
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