H953 בּוֹר
bôwr — a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison)
KJV: cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well.
Built from בּוּר bûwr (to bore) + בֹּאר bôʼr (a cistern)
Occurs 67 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- בּוֹר n.m. pit, cistern, well
- 1 cistern, containing water, made by digging
- 2 later appar. well
- 3 pit
- 4 dungeon
- 5 (poet. & late; never c. art.) pit of the grave
- בּוֹר הַסִּרָה n.pr.loc
- בּוֹר הַסִּרָה n.pr.loc. 2 S 3:26 (cistern of Sirah)
Where it occurs
- Genesis 37:20 — Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has…
- Genesis 37:22 — Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”—that he…
- Genesis 37:24 — and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.
- Genesis 37:28 — Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the…
- Genesis 37:29 — Reuben returned to the pit, and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.
- Genesis 40:15 — For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me…
- Genesis 41:14 — Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his…
- Exodus 12:29 — At midnight, the LORD struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his…
- Exodus 21:33 — “If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn’t cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,
- Exodus 21:34 — the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.