בּוֹר
pit
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
51 distinct verses where H953 appears in the Absolute state, across 17 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 7 verses
- Genesis 37:20 הַ/בֹּר֔וֹת ptcl def.art + n c mp 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."
- Genesis 37:22 הַ/בּ֤וֹר ptcl def.art + n c ms Reuben 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.
- Genesis 37:24 הַ/בֹּ֑רָ/ה וְ/הַ/בּ֣וֹר ptcl def.art + n c ms + sfx dem conj + ptcl def.art + n c ms and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.
- Genesis 37:28 הַ/בּ֔וֹר ptcl def.art + n c ms Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt.
- Genesis 37:29 הַ/בּ֔וֹר בַּ/בּ֑וֹר ptcl def.art + n c ms prep det + n c ms Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn't in the pit; and he tore his clothes.
- Genesis 40:15 בַּ/בּֽוֹר prep det + n c ms 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."
- Genesis 41:14 הַ/בּ֑וֹר ptcl def.art + n c ms Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh.
Exodus 3 verses
- Exodus 12:29 הַ/בּ֑וֹר ptcl def.art + n c ms 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.
- Exodus 21:33 בּ֗וֹר בֹּ֖ר n c ms n c ms "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,
- Exodus 21:34 הַ/בּוֹר֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.
Leviticus 1 verse
Deuteronomy 1 verse
1 Samuel 1 verse
2 Samuel 1 verse
1 Chronicles 1 verse
2 Chronicles 1 verse
Nehemiah 1 verse
Psalms 5 verses
- Psalms 7:15 בּ֣וֹר n c ms He has dug a hole, And has fallen into the pit which he made.
- Psalms 28:1 בֽוֹר n c ms To you, Yahweh, 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.
- Psalms 30:3 בֽוֹר n c ms Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
- Psalms 88:4 ב֑וֹר n c ms I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,
- Psalms 143:7 בֽוֹר n c ms Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don't hide your face from me, So that I don't become like those who go down into the pit.
Proverbs 2 verses
Ecclesiastes 1 verse
Isaiah 5 verses
- Isaiah 14:15 בֽוֹר n c ms Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the uttermost parts of the pit.
- Isaiah 14:19 ב֖וֹר n c ms 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.
- Isaiah 24:22 בּ֔וֹר n c ms 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.
- Isaiah 38:18 ב֖וֹר n c ms For Sheol can't praise you, death can't celebrate you: Those who go down into the pit can't hope for your truth.
- Isaiah 51:1 בּ֖וֹר n c ms Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh: look to the rock whence you were hewn, and to the hold of the pit whence you were dug.
Jeremiah 10 verses
- Jeremiah 6:7 בור בַּ֨יִר֙ n c ms n c ms 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.
- Jeremiah 37:16 הַ/בּ֖וֹר ptcl def.art + n c ms When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon-house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
- Jeremiah 38:6 הַ/בּ֣וֹר וּ/בַ/בּ֤וֹר ptcl def.art + n c ms conj + prep det + n c ms Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king's son, that was in the court of the guard: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
- Jeremiah 38:7 הַ/בּ֑וֹר ptcl def.art + n c ms Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin),
- Jeremiah 38:9 הַ/בּ֑וֹר ptcl def.art + n c ms My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah 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.
- Jeremiah 38:10 הַ/בּ֖וֹר ptcl def.art + n c ms Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with you, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.
- Jeremiah 38:11 הַ/בּ֖וֹר ptcl def.art + n c ms So Ebedmelech 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 Jeremiah.
- Jeremiah 38:13 הַ/בּ֑וֹר ptcl def.art + n c ms So they drew up Jeremiah with the cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
- Jeremiah 41:7 הַ/בּ֔וֹר ptcl def.art + n c ms It was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, [and cast them] into the midst of the pit, he, and the men who were with him.
- Jeremiah 41:9 וְ/הַ/בּ֗וֹר conj + ptcl def.art + n c ms Now the pit in which Ishmael cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had killed, by the side of Gedaliah (the same was who which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel), Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with those who were killed.
Lamentations 1 verse
Ezekiel 9 verses
- Ezekiel 26:20 ב֜וֹר ב֔וֹר n c ms n c ms 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:
- Ezekiel 31:14 בֽוֹר n c ms to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, [even] all who drink water: for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.
- Ezekiel 31:16 ב֑וֹר n c ms I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth.
- Ezekiel 32:18 בֽוֹר n c ms Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, to the lower parts of the earth, with those who go down into the pit.
- Ezekiel 32:23 ב֔וֹר n c ms whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is round about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.
- Ezekiel 32:24 בֽוֹר n c ms There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit.
- Ezekiel 32:25 ב֔וֹר n c ms They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude; her graves are round about her; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of those who are slain.
- Ezekiel 32:29 בֽוֹר n c ms There is Edom, her kings and all her princes, who in their might are laid with those who are slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with those who go down to the pit.
- Ezekiel 32:30 בֽוֹר n c ms There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who are gone down with the slain; in the terror which they caused by their might they are put to shame; and they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.
Zechariah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
בור — transliterated bôwr — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “pit.” It first appears in Genesis 37:20. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 62 verses — moderately common. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H953 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 62
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 62 distinct verses.
- 18 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 18 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #582
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 582 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 62 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 62 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 32 verses · 52%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 18 verses · 29%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 12 verses · 19%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 6 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Pit 38×, Dungeon 11×, Well 6×
- American Standard Version†: Pit 32×, Dungeon 11×, Well 7×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Pit 33×, Cistern 9×, Well 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Pit 28×, Cistern 11×, Cisterns 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H953 across 67† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H953 across 67† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H953 across 62† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 5 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H953 across 59† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 5 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
בור I
- 1. cistern, containing water, made by digging (חצב) Dt 6:11 2 Ch 26:10 Ne 9:25; also (without ref. to origin) Pr 5:15 (‖ בְּאֵר), Lv 11:36 (‖ מַעְיָן), 1 S 19:22 Is 36:16 = 2 K 18:31. e.g. Deuteronomy 6:11
- 2. later appar. well (= בְּאֵר) 1 Ch 11:17, 18 = Qr 2 S 23:15, 16 (yet now no well at Bethlehem RobBR i. 470, 473 cf. also Surveyiii. 28 Guérin Judée i. 130) cf. Ec 12:6 & Je 6:7 Kt כְּהָקִיר בו֯ר מֵימֶיהָ as a well casteth out its water (Qr בַּיִר); but הקיר perhaps keep cool, fresh 𝔊 𝔙 Hi Gf e.g. 1 Chronicles 11:17
- 3. pit Ex 21:33 (vb. פתח), v 33 (כרה), cf. v 34; cf. fig. ψ 7:16 of wickedness (‖ שַׁחַת; vb. כרה, חפר); 1 S 13:6 as hiding-place; 2 S 23:20 (Qr) = 1 Ch 11:22 2 K 10:14 בּוֹר בֵּית עֵ֫קֶד; of pit into wh. Joseph was cast Gn 37:20, 22, 24 (וְהַבּוֹר רֵק אֵין בּוֹ מ֑יִם) v 28, 29(×2) (JE) cf. further Je 41:7, 9; fig. of Sarah as mother of Israel מַקֶּבֶת בּ׳ Is 51:1; fig. of calamity ψ 40:3 בּוֹר שָׁאוֹן; cf. ψ 88:7 בּ׳ תַּחְתִּיּוֹת. e.g. Exodus 21:33
- 4. dungeon (pit with no water in it Je 38:6 Zc 9:11 cf. Gn 37:24 supr.) Gn 40:15; 41:14 (E) Is 24:22 Je 38:6(×2) (בּ׳ אֵין מַיִם) v 7, 9, 10, 11, 13; also בֵּית הַבּוֹר prison Ex 12:29 Je 37:16; fig. of exile Zc 9:11 (מִבּוֹר אֵין מַיִם בּוֹ); cf. also La 3:53, 55. e.g. Jeremiah 38:6
- 5. (poet. & late; never c. art.) pit of the grave Pr 28:17; so אַבְנֵי ב׳ stones of the pit Is 14:19 (of sepulchre, walled with stones) & of Sheʾôl ψ 30:4 (‖ שׁאול); יַרְכְּתֵי ב׳ loins of (the) pit, i.e. remotest pit Is 14:15 (‖ שׁאול) Ez 32:23 especially in phrase יוֹרְדֵי בוֹר those going down to (the) pit ψ 28:1; 143:7 Is 38:18 Ez 26:20; 32:25, 29, 30; also, (‖ שׁאול), ψ 88:5 Pr 1:12; further Ez 26:20 32:18, 24 (all ‖ אֶרֶץ תַּחְתִּיּוֹת), 31:14, 16 (both ‖ אֶרֶץ תַּחְתִּית; v 14 ‖ also מָוֶת, v 16 שְׁאוֹל). e.g. Proverbs 28:17
בור II loc. 2 S 3
בור III cistern, v. sub באר.
בור IV cleanness, v. בֹּר sub ברר.
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. n.m. Gn 37:20 pit, cistern, well (= בְּאֹר, MI בר, Arabic بُؤْرَةٌ hole or hollow for cooking, Assyrian bûrtum DlPr 182, bûru Lotz TP 169)—בּ׳ abs. Gn 37:22 +; בֹּר Ex 21:33 (2 S 23:20 Qr, v. באר supr.); cstr. בּוֹר 2 K 10:14 + (2 S 23:15, 16 Qr, v. באר supr.); בֹּ֫רָה (ָה loc.) Gn 37:24; sf. בּוֹרוֹ Is 36:16 = בֹּרוֹ 2 K 18:31; בּוֹרֶ֑ךָ Pr 5:15; pl. בֹּרוֹת Gn 37:20 + 3 times; בֹּרֹת Dt 6:11:—
I. n.pr.loc. 2 S 3:26 (cistern of Sirah, Thes cist.declinationis, MV of the pot, v. סיר)
I. Qr Je 6:7 v. בּוֹר (supra).
II. cistern, v. sub באר.
III. cleanness, v. בֹּר sub ברר.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from בור (bûwr) (H952) — to explain.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
בּוּר I
- (√בה, v. בהה) to be empty, waste, uncultivated. Y. Dem. VI, 25ᵇ top שלא תָבוּר א"י in order that Palestine should not lie waste. Ib. יובירו ואל וכ׳; (read as) Y. Ab. Zar. I, end, 40ᵇ יָבוּרוּ let them rather lie waste than rent them to a gentile.—Part. בָּר, בָּרָה a. בֹּורָה. B. Mets. 101ᵃ שתהא ברה בידו in order that the field may rather lie waste in his own possession; cmp. Y. l. c. [Rashi fr. ברר to be clear and firm in his possession, by buying it back from the gentile. R. Ḥan., in Tosaf. a. l., בֹּורָה, lying waste in the gentile’s possession; v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 90.] B. Bath. 168ᵃ לא צריכא [דאפי׳] בבורה (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) it means to say that even in the case of an unbroken field being rented, the tenant has to pay the scribe’s fees; Rashi: even if the field will have to lie fallow for some time to come yet. [Cmp. part. fem. חוֹלָה fr. חוּל.]
- a. הוֹבִיר (fr. יבר, or אבר) to let lie waste; to neglect. Arakh. IX, 1 (29ᵇ) הֵבִירָהּ (הוֹ׳) if he let it untilled. Ex. R. s. 27, end הוֹבִירָהּ. B. Mets. IX, 3 הו׳ (Y. ed. הב׳). Gen. R. s. 82 מֵבִירָן (מוֹבִירָן; Koh. R. to IV, 6 מְבַיְּירָן Pi.).
- 1. same. Koh. R. l. c., v. supra. Ex. R. s. 32 (play on שית in אשיתך Jer. III, 19) בִּיַּירְתֶּם עצמיכם ye neglected yourselves (mentally).— e.g. Jeremiah 3:19
- *2. (denom. of בּוֹר II or בִּיר) to prepare a pitfall, to entrap. Lev. R. s. 19; v. בִּירָנִית 2).
בּוּר
- ch. as preced. Kal. Targ. O. Gen. XLVII, 19.—Part. בָּיִיר. Taan. 6ᵇ לא בָּיְירֵי וכ׳ the halls (academies) are not empty (oth. expl.: the gardens do not lie waste). Lev. R. s. 1, beg. he sees חקליה בָּיְירָה וכ׳ (Var. ביירא) his field waste (in the Sabbath year) &c.
- as preced. Hif.—B. Mets. IX, 3; Ib. 104ᵇ אי מוֹבַרְנָא לה if I should let it lie waste.
- to become empty (stupid). Targ. Jer. X, 14 (h. text נבער).
בּוּר II
- (cmp. בֹּור I)
- 1. something waste, wild-growing, whence weed, brier. Targ. Is. VII, 23; a. e. (always with הוֹבַאי q. v.; h. text שמיר ושית).
- 2. (adj.) coarse, indigestible. Pl. בּוּרִין. Koh. R. to I, 18 the one ate מלין ב׳ coarse food.
בֹּור
- to choose, v. בָּרַר.
בֹּור I
- (v. בּוּר I) uncultivated, an uncultured person, mannerless, ruffian. Aboth. II, 5; a. fr.—Mikv. IX, 6 של בור, v. בַּנָּאִים.—Pl. בֹּורִים. Num. R. s. 3, beg.
בּוֹר II
- (rarely fem.) (b. h.; v. בּוּר I a.
- 1. pit, cistern, often = בְּאֵר. Erub. II, 4 contrad. to בְּאֵר, v. ib. 18ᵃ ב׳ מכונסין … באר מים חיים.—B. Bath. 64ᵃ ב׳ בחפירה bor means a pit or well gained by mere digging (without masonry), v. דּוּת. B. Kam. V, 5 (50ᵇ), a. fr. ב׳ שיח ומערה a narrow pit (about ten hand-breadths deep), a lengthy ditch, and a spacious cavity. Y. Sot. II, 18ᵃ, v. בְּאֵר. B. Kam. 6ᵃ ב׳ תוכיח the word bor proves. Taan. 8ᵃ, v. חוּלְדָּה.—Trnsf. obstacle, danger (v. Ex. XXI, 33 sq.). B. Kam. 6ᵃ ב׳ המתגלגל a moving danger (e.g. a rolling stone).—ב׳ וסירה, v. סִירָה.—ב׳ הגדול the Large Well, ב׳ הגולה the Pilgrims’ Well, names of cisterns in the Temple premises. Erub. X, 14; Midd. V, 4.—ב׳ ספינה אלכסנדרית the tank of sweet water in Alexandrian merchantmen. Ohol. VIII, 1; Sabb. 35ᵃ; a. e.—[Ib. 77ᵇ ב׳ זינקא, v. בּוּרְזִינְקָא.] e.g. Exodus 21:33
- 2. a receptacle for oil or wine in the press. Maasr. IV, 1 כב׳ קטן like an oil tank on a small scale. Ab. Zar. IV, 8 עד שירד לב׳ until the wine comes into the tank.—Pl. בּוֹרוֹת. B. Bath. 17ᵇ; a. fr.—Erub. 104ᵇ ב׳ הקרות, v. הָקֵר.—[Y. Snh. I, 19ᵃ bot. אני ובורך = ובוראך I and thy Creator.]
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 43 distinct written forms H953 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 61 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 62 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 37:20
- Exodus 12:29
- Leviticus 11:36
- Deuteronomy 6:11
- 1 Samuel 13:6
- 2 Samuel 3:26
- 2 Kings 10:14
- 1 Chronicles 11:17
- 2 Chronicles 26:10
- Psalms 7:15
- Proverbs 1:12
- Ecclesiastes 12:6
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
