בֹץ
bôts · H1206 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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mire, mud
Wet, swampy ground; as a natural condition or resulting from rain; metaphor for a bad situation
ExamplesJeremiah 38:22 ‘Behold, all of the women who have been left in the palace of the king of Judah are going to be brought out to the officers of the king of Babylon; and those women will say, “Your close friends Have misled and overpowered you; While your feet were sunk in the mire, They turned back.”
How it’s used In 1 role
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1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- טִיט ṭîyṭ · H2916 · mud, dirt, mire
- Both words denote sticky, wet earth substances (mire, clay, dirt); "mire" is explicitly shared, and either could substitute for the other in contexts describing muddy, earthen material.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- בֹץ denotes mire or mud, as in Jeremiah 38:22's image of feet "sunk in the mire" (בַּבֹּץ), naming the wet, clinging earth Jeremiah's enemies picture him trapped in.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1206. bots בֹּץ noun [masculine] mire Jer 38:22.
בֹּץ noun [masculine] mire Jer 38:22.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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