{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H953",
  "lemma": "בּוֹר",
  "transliteration": "bôwr",
  "definition": "a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison)",
  "kjv": "cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well.",
  "occurrences": 67,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H952",
      "lemma": "בּוּר",
      "transliteration": "bûwr",
      "meaning": "to bore",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H952"
    },
    {
      "id": "H877",
      "lemma": "בֹּאר",
      "transliteration": "bôʼr",
      "meaning": "a cistern",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H877"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "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)"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 37:20",
      "text": "Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 37:22",
      "text": "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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=22"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 37:24",
      "text": "and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=24"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 37:28",
      "text": "Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=28"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 37:29",
      "text": "Reuben returned to the pit, and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=29"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 40:15",
      "text": "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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/40?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 41:14",
      "text": "Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/41?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 12:29",
      "text": "At midnight, the LORD struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/12?v=29"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 21:33",
      "text": "“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,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/21?v=33"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 21:34",
      "text": "the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/21?v=34"
    }
  ],
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