Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H953: בּוֹר (bôwr) Definition

Strong's number
H953
Lemma
בּוֹר
Transliteration
bôwr
Pronunciation
bore
Strong's definition
a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison) cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well. from H952 (בּוּר) (in the sense of H877 (בֹּאר));

65 instances of the word בּוֹר bôwr (H953)


  • Jeremiah 37:16 - was entered When Jeremiah into the dungeon and into the cabins had remained When Jeremiah days there many

  • Jeremiah 38:6 - Then took Jeremiah and cast And in the dungeon of Malchiah the son that was in the court of the prison and they let down Jeremiah with cords And in the dungeon there was no water but mire sunk Jeremiah but mire

  • Jeremiah 38:7 - heard Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian one of the eunuchs house the king that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin

  • Jeremiah 38:9 - My lord the king have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet whom they have cast into the dungeon and he is like to die in the place for hunger where he is for there is no more bread in the city

  • Jeremiah 38:10 - commanded Then the king Ebedmelech the Ethiopian saying Take with thee from hence thirty and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon before he die

  • Jeremiah 38:11 - and took So Ebedmelech with him and went into the house of the king under the treasury and took and old cast clouts and old rotten rags and let them down to Jeremiah into the dungeon by cords

  • Jeremiah 38:13 - So they drew up Jeremiah with cords and took him up out of the dungeon remained Jeremiah in the court of the prison

  • Jeremiah 41:7 - And it was so when they came into the midst of the city slew that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah into the midst of the pit

  • Jeremiah 41:9 - Now the pit had cast and Ishmael all the dead bodies whom he had slain because of Gedaliah had made king was it which Asa for fear of Baasha king of Israel filled and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah it with them that were slain

  • Lamentations 3:53 - They have cut off in the dungeon my life and cast a stone

  • Lamentations 3:55 - I called upon thy name O LORD dungeon out of the low

  • Leviticus 11:36 - Nevertheless a fountain or pit wherein there is plenty of water shall be clean but that which toucheth their carcase shall be unclean

  • Nehemiah 9:25 - And they took cities strong land and a fat and possessed houses full goodness wells digged vineyards and oliveyards trees and fruit in abundance so they did eat and were filled and became fat and delighted goodness themselves in thy great

  • Proverbs 1:12 - Let us swallow them up as the grave alive and whole as those that go down into the pit

  • Proverbs 5:15 - Drink waters out of thine own cistern and running waters out of thine own well

  • Proverbs 28:17 - A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person to the pit shall flee let no man stay

  • Psalms 7:15 - a pit He made and digged it and is fallen into the ditch which he made

  • Psalms 28:1 - O LORD Unto thee will I cry my rock to me lest if thou be silent to me lest if thou be silent to me I become like them that go down into the pit

  • Psalms 30:3 - O LORD thou hast brought up from the grave my soul thou hast kept me alive that I should not go down to the pit

  • Psalms 40:2 - He brought me up pit also out of an horrible clay out of the miry and set upon a rock my feet and established my goings