בֹּרִית
bôrîyth · H1287 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
A word for 2 things
Meanings
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soap, lye
Substance, probably made by mixing the ashes of certain soda plants with olive oil, animal fats, or water; used as cleansing agent (AYBC)
ExamplesJeremiah 2:22 “Although you wash yourself with lye And use much soap, The stain of your guilt is before Me,” declares the Lord GOD.
Malachi 3:2 “But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderer’s soap.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כָּבַסto wash 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רָבָהto increase 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּאhe, she, it 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as 1
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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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Soap001002005013
- בֹּרִית denotes soap or a cleansing agent, as in Jeremiah 2:22's "although you wash yourself with lye and use much soap" (בֹרִית), naming the substance used for washing.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1287. borith בֹּרִית noun feminine lye, alkali, potash, soap, used in washing Jer 2:22;…
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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