בּוֹר
bôwr · bore
a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H952 (בּוּר) (in the sense of H877 (בֹּאר));
a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well.
Letters
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the house, what is within › to fasten and establish › the head, the highest
The house, what is within that works to fasten and establish of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of בּוֹר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
66 occurrences · 66 OT · 0 NT · 42 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- into the pit8 · 14%
- to the pit8 · 14%
- of the pit6 · 10%
- a pit4 · 7%
- pit3 · 5%
- out of the dungeon3 · 5%
- into the dungeon3 · 5%
- out of the pit2 · 3%
- of the well2 · 3%
- out of the well2 · 3%
- wells2 · 3%
- in the dungeon2 · 3%
- him into this pit1 · 2%
- him into a pit1 · 2%
- and the pit1 · 2%
- unto the pit1 · 2%
- was not in the pit1 · 2%
- me into the dungeon1 · 2%
- that was in the dungeon1 · 2%
- or pit1 · 2%
- not, and wells1 · 2%
- and in pits1 · 2%
- well1 · 2%
- from the well1 · 2%
- of a pit1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.