Biblical Hebrew

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Strong Hebrew #877 - בֹּאר bor (a cistern)


Original Word:בֹּאר
Transliteration:bor
Definition:a cistern, pit, well
Part of Speech:Noun Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:(bore)
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

cistern

From ba'ar; a cistern -- cistern.

see HEBREW ba'ar


Englishman's Concordance

1) cistern, pit, well
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H874
Same Word by TWOT Number: 194d

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[בּאֹר] noun masculineJeremiah 2:13cistern, pit, well (for בְּאֹר compare בּוֺר) — singular Kt באר2 Samuel 23:15,16,20 (Qr בֹּר); apparently well2 Samuel 23:15; 2 Samuel 23:16 (read perhaps בְּאֵר), pit2 Samuel 23:20; plural Jeremiah 2:13me they have forsaken, the fountain of living water, לַחְצֹב לָהֶם בּאֹרוֺת בּאֹרֹת נִשְׁבָּרִים, to hew out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, etc.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 877. בֹּארוֹת (bor) — 4 Occurrences

2 Samuel 23:15
HEB:יַשְׁקֵ֣נִי מַ֔יִם מִבֹּ֥אר בֵּֽית־ לֶ֖חֶם
NAS: to drink from the well of Bethlehem
INT: give water the well of Bethlehem which

2 Samuel 23:16
HEB:וַיִּֽשְׁאֲבוּ־ מַ֙יִם֙ מִבֹּ֤אר בֵּֽית־ לֶ֙חֶם֙
NAS: water from the well of Bethlehem
INT: and drew water the well of Bethlehem which

Jeremiah 2:13
HEB:לַחְצֹ֤ב לָהֶם֙ בֹּאר֔וֹת בֹּארֹת֙ נִשְׁבָּרִ֔ים
NAS: To hew for themselves cisterns, Broken
KJV: [and] hewed them out cisterns, broken
INT: of living to hew cisterns cisterns Broken

Jeremiah 2:13
HEB:לָהֶם֙ בֹּאר֔וֹת בֹּארֹת֙ נִשְׁבָּרִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר
NAS: Broken cisterns That can
KJV: broken cisterns, that can hold
INT: to hew cisterns cisterns Broken after