This word comes from the name of Sirah.
Definition
from H952 (in the sense of H877); a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison)
Traditional renderings: cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well.
Traditional renderings: cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well.
Glossary entries
Where it occurs
Occurrences
67 total
- Jeremiah 38:11הַבּ֖וֹר · the cisternThen Ebed-melech took the men with him and went to the king’s palace, to a place below the storehouse. From there he took old rags and worn-out clothes and lowered them with ropes to Jeremiah in the cistern.
- Jeremiah 38:13הַבּ֑וֹר · the cistern…and they pulled him up with the ropes and lifted him out of the cistern. And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.
- Jeremiah 41:7הַבּ֔וֹר · a cisternAnd when they came into the city, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the men with him slaughtered them and threw them into a cistern.
- Jeremiah 41:9וְהַבּ֗וֹר · Now the cisternNow the cistern into which Ishmael had thrown all the bodies of the men he had struck down along with Gedaliah was a large one that King Asa had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel. Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.
- Lamentations 3:53בַבּוֹר֙ · into a pitThey dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.
- Lamentations 3:55מִבּ֖וֹר · of the PitI called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.
- Ezekiel 26:20 (2×)ב֜וֹר · to the Pit; ב֔וֹר · to the Pit…then I will bring you down with those who descend to the Pit, to the people of antiquity. I will make you dwell in the earth below like the ancient ruins, with those who descend to the Pit, so that you will no longer be inhabited or set in splendor in the land of the living.
- Ezekiel 31:14בֽוֹר׃ס · to the PitThis happened so that no other trees by the waters would become great in height and set their tops among the clouds, and no other well-watered trees would reach them in height. For they have all been consigned to death, to the depths of the earth, among the mortals who descend to the Pit.’
- Ezekiel 31:16ב֑וֹר · to the PitI made the nations quake at the sound of its downfall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who descend to the Pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees, were consoled in the earth below.
- Ezekiel 32:18בֽוֹר׃ · to the Pit“Son of man, wail for the multitudes of Egypt, and consign her and the daughters of the mighty nations to the depths of the earth with those who descend to the Pit:
- Ezekiel 32:23ב֔וֹר · of the PitHer graves are set in the depths of the Pit, and her company is all around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword—those who once spread terror in the land of the living.
- Ezekiel 32:24בֽוֹר׃ · to the PitElam is there with all her multitudes around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword—those who went down uncircumcised to the earth below, who once spread their terror in the land of the living. They bear their disgrace with those who descend to the Pit.
- Ezekiel 32:25ב֔וֹר · to the PitAmong the slain they prepare a resting place for Elam with all her hordes, with her graves all around her. All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword, although their terror was once spread in the land of the living. They bear their disgrace with those who descend to the Pit. They are placed among the slain.
- Ezekiel 32:29בֽוֹר׃ · to the PitEdom is there, and all her kings and princes, who despite their might are laid among those slain by the sword. They lie down with the uncircumcised, with those who descend to the Pit.
- Ezekiel 32:30בֽוֹר׃ · to the PitAll the leaders of the north and all the Sidonians are there; they went down in disgrace with the slain, despite the terror of their might. They lie uncircumcised with those slain by the sword and bear their shame with those who descend to the Pit.
- Zechariah 9:11מִבּ֔וֹר · pitAs for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.