Lexical Definition

‎בּוֹר‎ bôwr (bore) pit ^H:N-M
from ‎בּוּר‎ (in the sense of ‎בֹּאר‎)

cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well.

• a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison)

1) pit, well, cistern

See Greek: ἀγγεῖον · γῆ · ὀχύρωμα · φρέαρ

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎בּוֺר‎ noun masculine^{Gen 37:20} pit, cistern, well (= ‎בְּאֹר‎, MI ‎בר‎, Arabic hole or hollow for cooking, Assyrian bûrtum Dl^{Pr 182}, bûru Lotz^{TP 169}) — ‎׳‎‎בּ‎ absolute Gen 37:22 +; ‎בֹּר‎ Exod 21:33 (2Sam 23:20 Qr, see ‎באר‎ above); construct ‎בּוֺר‎ 2Kgs 10:14 + (2Sam 23:15; 2Sam 23:16 Qr, see ‎באר‎ above); ‎בֹּ֫רָה‎ (‎ָ  ה‎ locative) Gen 37:24 suffix ‎בּוֺרוֺ‎ Isa 36:16 = ‎בֹּרוֺ‎ 2Kgs 18:31 ‎בּוֺרֶ֑ךָ‎ Prov 5:15 plural ‎בֹּרוֺת‎ Gen 37:20 + 3 t.; ‎בֹּרֹת‎ Deut 6:11: —

1. cistern, containing water, made by digging (‎חצב‎) Deut 6:11; 2Chr 26:10; Neh 9:25 also (without reference to origin) Prov 5:15 (|| ‎בְּאֵר‎) Lev 11:36 (|| ‎מַעִיָן‎), 1Sam 19:22; Isa 36:16 = 2Kgs 18:31.

2. later apparently well (= ‎בְּאֵר‎) 1Chr 11:17; 1Chr 11:18 = Qr 2Sam 23:15; 2Sam 23:16 (yet now no well at Bethlehem Rob^{BR i. 470, 473} compare also Survey^{iii. 28} Guérin^{Judée i. 130}), compare Eccl 12:6 & Jer 6:7 Kt ‎כְּהָקִיר‎ ‎בו֯ר מֵימֶיהָ‎ as a well casteth out its water (Qr ‎בַּיִר‎); but ‎הקיר‎ perhaps keep cool, fresh ᵐ5 ᵑ9 Hi Gf.

3. pit Exod 21:33 (verb ‎פתח‎), vExod 21:33 (‎כרה‎), compare vExod 21:34 compare figurative Ps 7:16* of wickedness (|| ‎שַׁחַת‎; verb ‎כרה‎, ‎חפר‎); 1Sam 13:6 as hiding-place; 2Sam 23:20 (Qr) = 1Chr 11:22; 2Kgs 10:14 ‎בּוֺר בֵּית עֵ֫קֶד‎; of pit into which Joseph was cast Gen 37:20; Gen 37:22; Gen 37:24 (‎וְהַבּוֺר רֵק אֵין בּוֺ מ֑יִם‎) vGen 37:28 vGen 37:29 vGen 37:29 (JE), compare further Jer 41:7; Jer 41:9 figurative of Sarah as mother of Israel ‎׳‎‎מַקֶּבֶת בּ‎ Isa 51:1 figurative of calamity Ps 40:3* ‎בּוֺר שָׁאוֺן‎; compare Ps 88:7* ‎תַּחְתִּיּוֺת‎ ‎׳‎‎בּ‎.

4. dungeon (pit with no water in it Jer 38:6; Zech 9:11 compare Gen 37:24 above) Gen 40:13; Gen 41:14 (E) Isa 24:22; Jer 38:6 (twice in verse) (‎אֵין מַיִם‎ ‎׳‎‎בּ‎) vJer 38:7 vJer 38:9 vJer 38:10 vJer 38:11 vJer 38:13 also ‎בֵּית הַבּוֺר‎ prison Exod 12:29; Jer 37:16 figurative of exile Zech 9:11 (‎מִבּוֺר אֵין מַיִם בּוֺ‎); compare also Lam 3:53; Lam 3:55.

5. (in poetry & late; never with article) pit of the grave Prov 28:17 so ‎׳‎‎אַבְנֵי ב‎ stones of the pit Isa 14:19 (of sepulchre, walled with stones) & of Sh®°ôl Ps 30:4* (|| ‎שׁאול‎); ‎׳‎‎יַרְכְּתֵי ב‎ loins of (the) pit, i.e. remotest pit Isa 14:15 (|| ‎שׁאול‎) Ezek 32:23 especially in phrase ‎יוֺרְדֵי בוֺר‎ those going down to (the) pit Ps 28:1; Ps 143:7; Isa 38:18; Ezek 26:20; Ezek 32:25; Ezek 32:29; Ezek 32:30 also, (|| ‎שׁאול‎), Ps 88:5*; Prov 1:12 further Ezek 26:20; Ezek 32:18; Ezek 32:24 (all || ‎אֶרֶץ תַּחְתִּיּוֺת‎), Ezek 31:14; Ezek 31:16 (both || ‎אֶרֶץ‎ ‎תַּחְתִּית‎; vEzek 31:14 || also ‎מָוֶת‎, vEzek 31:16 ‎שְׁאוֺל‎).

‎בּוֺר הַסִּרָה‎ proper name, of a location 2Sam 3:26 (cistern of Sirah, Thes cist. declinationis, MV of the pot, see ‎סיר‎).

Also see: עָשָׁן

‎בּוֺר עָשָׁן‎ (so read for ordinary ‎׳‎‎כור ע‎, see BD^{Gn, p. vi.} ᵐ5 ᵑ6) proper name, of a location 1Sam 30:30 (smoking pit), in southwest of Judah; elsewhere ‎עָשָׁן‎ q. v.

‎בַּיִר‎ Qr Jer 6:7 see ‎בּוֺר‎. above

I. ‎בּוֺר‎, cistern, see below ‎באר‎.

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