# H953 בּוֹר

בּוֹר (bôwr), Strong’s H953: a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison) KJV: cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well.. Occurs 67 times.

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*bôwr* — a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison)

KJV: cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well.

Built from [בּוּר bûwr](https://besorah.bible/word/H952) (to bore) + [בֹּאר bôʼr](https://besorah.bible/word/H877) (a cistern)

Occurs 67 times.

## 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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=24) — and they took him, and threw him into the pit. The pit was empty. There was no water in it.
- [Genesis 37:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=29) — Reuben returned to the pit, and saw that Joseph wasn’t in the pit; and he tore his clothes.
- [Genesis 40:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/40?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/41?v=14) — Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his…
- [Exodus 12:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/12?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/21?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/21?v=34) — the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.