Hebrew Strong's Lexicon

H953

Language: 🇧🇶 Papiamentu 🇬🇧 English

Lemma: בֹּאר

Transliteration: bore

Definition: from בּוּר (in the sense of בֹּארוֹת); a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison)

KJV Definition: cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well

Verse usage

  • Genesis 37:20 NASB
    "Now then, come and let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits; and we will say, 'A wild beast devoured him.' Then let us see what will become of his dreams!"
  • Genesis 37:22 NASB
    Reuben further said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but do not lay hands on him"-- that he might rescue him out of their hands, to restore him to his father.
  • Genesis 37:24 NASB
    and they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, without any water in it.
  • Genesis 37:28 NASB
    Then some Midianite traders passed by, so they pulled [him] up and lifted Joseph out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty [shekels] of silver. Thus they brought Joseph into Egypt.
  • Genesis 37:29 NASB
    Now Reuben returned to the pit, and behold, Joseph was not in the pit; so he tore his garments.
  • Genesis 40:15 NASB
    "For I was in fact kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing that they should have put me into the dungeon."
  • Genesis 41:14 NASB
    Then Pharaoh sent and called for Joseph, and they hurriedly brought him out of the dungeon; and when he had shaved himself and changed his clothes, he came to Pharaoh.
  • Eksodo 12:29 NASB
    Now it came about at midnight that the LORD 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.
  • Eksodo 21:33 NASB
    "If a man opens a pit, or digs a pit and does not cover it over, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
  • Eksodo 21:34 NASB
    the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he shall give money to its owner, and the dead [animal] shall become his.
  • Levitiko 11:36 NASB
    'Nevertheless a spring or a cistern collecting water shall be clean, though the one who touches their carcass shall be unclean.
  • Deuteronomio 6:11 NASB
    and houses full of all good things which you did not fill, and hewn cisterns which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, and you eat and are satisfied,
  • 1 Samuel 13:6 NASB
    When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were hard-pressed), then the people hid themselves in caves, in thickets, in cliffs, in cellars, and in pits.
  • 1 Samuel 19:22 NASB
    Then he himself went to Ramah and came as far as the large well that is in Secu; and he asked and said, "Where are Samuel and David?" And [someone] said, "Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah."
  • 1 Samuel 30:30 NASB
    and to those who were in Hormah, and to those who were in Bor-ashan, and to those who were in Athach,
  • 2 Samuel 3:26 NASB
    When Joab came out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah; but David did not know [it].
  • 2 Reinan 10:14 NASB
    He said, "Take them alive." So they took them alive and killed them at the pit of Beth-eked, forty-two men; and he left none of them.
  • 2 Reinan 18:31 NASB
    'Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria, "Make your peace with me and come out to me, and eat each of his vine and each of his fig tree and drink each of the waters of his own cistern,
  • 1 Kronikonan 11:17 NASB
    David had a craving and said, "Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!"
  • 1 Kronikonan 11:18 NASB
    So the three broke through the camp of the Philistines and drew water from the well of Bethlehem which [was] by the gate, and took [it] and brought [it] to David; nevertheless David would not drink it, but poured it out to the LORD;