# H1253 בֹּר

בֹּר (bôr), Strong’s H1253: vegetable lye (from its cleansing); used as a soap forwashing, or a flux formetals KJV: [idiom] never so, purely.. Occurs 2 times.

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*bôr* — vegetable lye (from its cleansing); used as a soap forwashing, or a flux formetals

KJV: [idiom] never so, purely.

Occurs 2 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- בֹּר n.m. lye, potash, alkali used in smelting metals Is 1:25

## Where it occurs
- [Isaiah 1:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/1?v=25) — I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin.
- [Job 9:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/9?v=30) — If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,