Hebrew noun (masculine) · H1253
בֹּר
borbore
lye
2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bôr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1253is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1253
vegetable lye (from its cleansing); used as a soap forwashing, or a flux formetals
The King James renders it: [idiom] never so, purely.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
bor is rendered "lye". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 9:30If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
Job 9:30בְּבֹ֣ר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- like the potash1
- with potash1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בְּבֹ֣ר1
- כַּבֹּ֖ר1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
Job
one use
If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
- בְּבֹ֣רbevorpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: with potash
Isaiah
one use
I will turn My hand against you; I will thoroughly purge your dross; I will remove all your impurities.
- כַּבֹּ֖רkaborpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the potash
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.