Hebrew noun (masculine) · H877
בֹּאר
borbore
cistern
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bôʼr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H877is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H877
a cistern
The King James renders it: cistern.
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 "cistern". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in 2 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 23:15David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!”
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!”
2 Samuel 23:15מִבֹּ֥אר
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
- cisterns2
- from well of2
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.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- בֹּאר֔וֹת1
- בֹּארֹת֙1
- מִבֹּ֥אר1
- מִבֹּ֤אר1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine plural2HNcfpa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HR/Ncmsc
2 Samuel
two uses
David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!”
- מִבֹּ֥ארmiborpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from well of
So the three mighty men broke through the Philistine camp, drew water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem, and brought it back to David. But he refused to drink it; instead, he poured it out to the LORD,
- מִבֹּ֤ארmiborpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from well of
Jeremiah
two uses
“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
- בֹּאר֔וֹתborotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cisterns
- בֹּארֹת֙borotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cisterns
Where it leads
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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.