בֹּאר
bor · well, cistern
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H877 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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bor (בֹּאר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “well, cistern”.
Well or cistern: a hole dug to draw or store water. It is another spelling of the usual word for "cistern".
How to say it
bor
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A dug hole that holds water.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- cisterns ×2
- well ×2
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 2 Samuel 23:15
David longed and said, “Who will give me a drink of water from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate?”
- 2 Samuel 23:16
The three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines and drew water from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate, and they carried it and brought it to David; but he was not willing to drink it, and he poured it out as a libation to YHWH.
- Jeremiah 2:13
For two evils my people has done: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, to hew out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold the water.
And 1 more times.