Word Study · Strong's H1253 · Hebrew
בֹּר
bor
bore
Strong's 1890 spelling: bôr
“vegetable lye (from its cleansing)”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
vegetable lye (from its cleansing); used as a soap forwashing, or a flux formetals
Rendered in the KJV as
[idiom] never so, purely.
- 2occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 2 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 2inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 2 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 2
- בְּבֹ֣ר1
- כַּבֹּ֖ר1
How it is rendered · 2
- like the potash1
- with potash1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 2
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HR/Ncmsa · 1
- HRd/Ncmsa · 1
All 2, in canonical order
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Where this word lives
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Same headword in Strong's