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בֹּאר

bôʼr · H877 · Hebrew · 0 occurrences

Meanings

  1. a pit or cistern

    A hole in the ground big enough to hold a person and deep enough that a person cannot climb out, usually dug out of the ground or hewn from rock and often used to collect and store rain water, with fresh spring water considered superior to stagnant cistern water

    This lexeme does not occur in the Old Testament text as tagged in standard critical editions.

Semantic domains 5 entries
Wells and Cisterns001003002013
This lexeme has no tagged occurrence in the running text of the tagged critical edition, so this “Wells and Cisterns” domain is bundle-shared with the related lexeme בּוֹר (bôwr, H953) rather than independently attested here.
Buildings001003002001
This lexeme has no tagged occurrence in the running text of the tagged critical edition, so this “Buildings” domain is bundle-shared with the related lexeme בּוֹר (bôwr, H953) rather than independently attested here.
Regions Under the Earth001003
This lexeme has no tagged occurrence in the running text of the tagged critical edition, so this “Regions Under the Earth” domain is bundle-shared with the related lexeme בּוֹר (bôwr, H953) rather than independently attested here.
Names of Landforms003001008
This lexeme has no tagged occurrence in the running text of the tagged critical edition, so this “Names of Landforms” domain is bundle-shared with the related lexeme סִרָה (Çirâh, H5626) rather than independently attested here.
Names of Locations003001010
This lexeme has no tagged occurrence in the running text of the tagged critical edition, so this “Names of Locations” domain is bundle-shared with the related lexemes כּוֹר עָשָׁן (Kôwr ʻÂshân, H3565) and עָשָׁן (ʻâshân, H6227) rather than independently attested here.
Word family 7 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

בָּאַר bâʼar · H874 · to make clear · 3×בְּאֵר bᵉʼêr · H875 · well, watering place, spring · 37×בְּאֹשׁ bᵉʼôsh · H889 · to become foul, to stink, stench · 3×בְּאֻשִׁים bᵉʼushîym · H891 · rotten fruit, stinking weeds · 2×בׇּאְשָׁה boʼshâh · H890 · rotten fruit, stinking weeds · 1×בֹּארbôʼr · H877

Also from the root בָּאַר

בּוֹר bôwr · H953 · pit, cistern, dungeon · 70×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H877. bor [בּאֹר] noun masculineJer 2:13 cistern, pit, well (for בְּאֹר compare בּוֺר) —…
H877. bor
[בּאֹר] noun masculineJer 2:13 cistern, pit, well (for בְּאֹר compare בּוֺר) — singular Kt באר 2Sa 23:15-16, 2Sa 23:20 (Qr בֹּר); apparently well 2Sa 23:15; 2Sa 23:16 (read perhaps בְּאֵר), pit 2Sa 23:20; plural Jer 2:13 me they have forsaken, the fountain of living water, נִשְׁבָּרִים בּאֹרֹת בּאֹרוֺת לָהֶם לַחְצֹב, to hew out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns, etc.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 4 entries
Buildings0 occurrencesWells and Cisterns0 occurrencesNames of Landforms0 occurrencesNames of Locations0 occurrences

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