בּוֹר

“Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a vicious animal has devoured him. Then we shall see what becomes of his dreams!”

Genesis 37:20

• הַבֹּר֔וֹתhaborotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the pits

“Do not shed his blood. Throw him into this pit in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him.” Reuben said this so that he could rescue Joseph from their hands and return him to his father.

Genesis 37:22

• הַבּ֤וֹרhaborthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the pit

and they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, with no water in it.

Genesis 37:24

• הַבֹּ֑רָהhaborahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: the pit towards
• וְהַבּ֣וֹרvehaborconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the pit

So when the Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.

Genesis 37:28

• הַבּ֔וֹרhaborthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the pit

When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes,

Genesis 37:29

• הַבּ֔וֹרhaborthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the pit
• בַּבּ֑וֹרbaborpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the pit

For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing for which they should have put me in this dungeon.”

Genesis 40:15

• בַּבּֽוֹר׃baborpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the pit

So Pharaoh sent for Joseph, who was quickly brought out of the dungeon. After he had shaved and changed his clothes, he went in before Pharaoh.

Genesis 41:14

• הַבּ֑וֹרhaborthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the pit

Now at midnight the LORD struck down every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the firstborn among the livestock.

Exodus 12:29

• הַבּ֑וֹרhaborthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cistern

If a man opens or digs a pit and fails to cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

Exodus 21:33

• בּ֗וֹרbornoun · masculine singulartagged: a pit
• בֹּ֖רbornoun · masculine singulartagged: a pit

the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he must pay its owner, and the dead animal will be his.

Exodus 21:34

• הַבּוֹר֙haborthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the pit

Nevertheless, a spring or cistern containing water will remain clean, but one who touches a carcass in it will be unclean.

Leviticus 11:36

• וּב֛וֹרuvorconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a cistern

with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and when you eat and are satisfied,

Deuteronomy 6:11

• וּבֹרֹ֤תuvorotconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and wells

Seeing that they were in danger because their troops were hard-pressed, the men of Israel hid in caves and thickets, among the rocks, and in cellars and cisterns.

1 Samuel 13:6

• וּבַבֹּרֽוֹת׃uvaborotconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and in the cisterns

Finally, Saul himself left for Ramah and came to the large cistern at Secu, where he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” “At Naioth in Ramah,” he was told.

1 Samuel 19:22

• בּ֤וֹרbornoun · masculine singulartagged: a cistern

As soon as Joab had left David, he sent messengers after Abner, who brought him back from the well of Sirah; but David was unaware of it.

2 Samuel 3:26

• מִבּ֣וֹרmiborpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from Cistern of

And Benaiah son of Jehoiada was a man of valor from Kabzeel, a man of many exploits. He struck down two champions of Moab, and on a snowy day he went down into a pit and killed a lion.

2 Samuel 23:20

• הַבֹּ֖ארhaborthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the pit

Then Jehu ordered, “Take them alive.” So his men took them alive, then slaughtered them at the well of Beth-eked—forty-two men. He spared none of them.

2 Kings 10:14

• בּ֣וֹרbornoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: pit of

Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree, and drink water from his own cistern,

2 Kings 18:31

• בוֹרֽוֹ׃voronoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: own cistern his

David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!”

1 Chronicles 11:17

• מִבּ֥וֹרmiborpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from well of

So the Three broke through the Philistine camp, drew water from the well at the gate of Bethlehem, and brought it back to David. But he refused to drink it; instead, he poured it out to the LORD,

1 Chronicles 11:18

• מִבּ֤וֹרmiborpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from well of

And Benaiah son of Jehoiada was a man of valor from Kabzeel, a man of many exploits. He struck down two champions of Moab, and on a snowy day he went down into a pit and killed a lion.

1 Chronicles 11:22

• הַבּ֖וֹרhaborthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the pit

Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields.

2 Chronicles 26:10

• בֹּר֣וֹתborotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: wells

They captured fortified cities and fertile land and took houses full of all goods, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled; they grew fat and delighted in Your great goodness.

Nehemiah 9:25

• בֹּר֨וֹתborotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: wells

He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.

Psalms 7:15

• בּ֣וֹרbornoun · masculine singulartagged: a pit

To You, O LORD, I call; be not deaf to me, O my Rock. For if You remain silent, I will be like those descending to the Pit.

Psalms 28:1

• בֽוֹר׃vornoun · masculine singulartagged: of pit

O LORD, You pulled me up from Sheol; You spared me from descending into the Pit.

Psalms 30:3

• בֽוֹר׃vornoun · masculine singulartagged: pit

He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.

Psalms 40:2

• מִבּ֥וֹרmiborpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from a pit of

I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.

Psalms 88:4

• ב֑וֹרvornoun · masculine singulartagged: pit

You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.

Psalms 88:6

• בְּב֣וֹרbevorpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in a pit of

Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails. Do not hide Your face from me, or I will be like those who descend to the Pit.

Psalms 143:7

• בֽוֹר׃vornoun · masculine singulartagged: pit

let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.

Proverbs 1:12

• בֽוֹר׃vornoun · masculine singulartagged: pit

Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.

Proverbs 5:15

• מִבּוֹרֶ֑ךָmiborekhapreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: from own cistern your

A man burdened by bloodguilt will flee into the Pit; let no one support him.

Proverbs 28:17

• בּ֥וֹרbornoun · masculine singulartagged: pit

Remember Him before the silver cord is snapped and the golden bowl is crushed, before the pitcher is shattered at the spring and the wheel is broken at the well,

Ecclesiastes 12:6

• הַבּֽוֹר׃haborthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the well

But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.

Isaiah 14:15

• בֽוֹר׃vornoun · masculine singulartagged: pit

But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot.

Isaiah 14:19

• ב֖וֹרvornoun · masculine singulartagged: pit

They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit. They will be confined to a dungeon and punished after many days.

Isaiah 24:22

• בּ֔וֹרbornoun · masculine singulartagged: a pit

Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree, and drink water from his own cistern,

Isaiah 36:16

• בוֹרֽוֹ׃voronoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: own cistern his

For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.

Isaiah 38:18

• ב֖וֹרvornoun · masculine singulartagged: pit

“Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the quarry from which you were hewn.

Isaiah 51:1

• בּ֖וֹרbornoun · masculine singulartagged: pit

So Jeremiah went into a cell in the dungeon and remained there a long time.

Jeremiah 37:16

• הַבּ֖וֹרhaborthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cistern

So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.

Jeremiah 38:6

• הַבּ֣וֹר׀haborthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: the cistern of
• וּבַבּ֤וֹרuvaborconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and in the cistern

Now Ebed-melech the Cushite, a court official in the royal palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. While the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin,

Jeremiah 38:7

• הַבּ֑וֹרhaborthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cistern

“My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have dropped him into the cistern, where he will starve to death, for there is no more bread in the city.”

Jeremiah 38:9

• הַבּ֑וֹרhaborthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cistern

So the king commanded Ebed-melech the Cushite, “Take thirty men from here with you and pull Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies.”

Jeremiah 38:10

• הַבּ֖וֹרhaborthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cistern

Then Ebed-melech took the men with him and went to the king’s palace, to a place below the storehouse. From there he took old rags and worn-out clothes and lowered them with ropes to Jeremiah in the cistern.

Jeremiah 38:11

• הַבּ֖וֹרhaborthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cistern

and they pulled him up with the ropes and lifted him out of the cistern. And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.

Jeremiah 38:13

• הַבּ֑וֹרhaborthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cistern

And when they came into the city, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the men with him slaughtered them and threw them into a cistern.

Jeremiah 41:7

• הַבּ֔וֹרhaborthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cistern

Now the cistern into which Ishmael had thrown all the bodies of the men he had struck down along with Gedaliah was a large one that King Asa had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel. Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.

Jeremiah 41:9

• וְהַבּ֗וֹרvehaborconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the cistern

They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.

Lamentations 3:53

• בַבּוֹר֙vaborpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the pit

I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.

Lamentations 3:55

• מִבּ֖וֹרmiborpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from a pit of

then I will bring you down with those who descend to the Pit, to the people of antiquity. I will make you dwell in the earth below like the ancient ruins, with those who descend to the Pit, so that you will no longer be inhabited or set in splendor in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 26:20

• ב֜וֹרvornoun · masculine singulartagged: pit
• ב֔וֹרvornoun · masculine singulartagged: pit

This happened so that no other trees by the waters would become great in height and set their tops among the clouds, and no other well-watered trees would reach them in height. For they have all been consigned to death, to the depths of the earth, among the mortals who descend to the Pit.’

Ezekiel 31:14

• בֽוֹר׃ סvornoun · masculine singulartagged: pit

I made the nations quake at the sound of its downfall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who descend to the Pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees, were consoled in the earth below.

Ezekiel 31:16

• ב֑וֹרvornoun · masculine singulartagged: pit

“Son of man, wail for the multitudes of Egypt, and consign her and the daughters of the mighty nations to the depths of the earth with those who descend to the Pit:

Ezekiel 32:18

• בֽוֹר׃vornoun · masculine singulartagged: pit

Her graves are set in the depths of the Pit, and her company is all around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword—those who once spread terror in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 32:23

• ב֔וֹרvornoun · masculine singulartagged: pit

Elam is there with all her multitudes around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword—those who went down uncircumcised to the earth below, who once spread their terror in the land of the living. They bear their disgrace with those who descend to the Pit.

Ezekiel 32:24

• בֽוֹר׃vornoun · masculine singulartagged: pit

Among the slain they prepare a resting place for Elam with all her hordes, with her graves all around her. All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword, although their terror was once spread in the land of the living. They bear their disgrace with those who descend to the Pit. They are placed among the slain.

Ezekiel 32:25

• ב֔וֹרvornoun · masculine singulartagged: pit

Edom is there, and all her kings and princes, who despite their might are laid among those slain by the sword. They lie down with the uncircumcised, with those who descend to the Pit.

Ezekiel 32:29

• בֽוֹר׃vornoun · masculine singulartagged: pit

All the leaders of the north and all the Sidonians are there; they went down in disgrace with the slain, despite the terror of their might. They lie uncircumcised with those slain by the sword and bear their shame with those who descend to the Pit.

Ezekiel 32:30

• בֽוֹר׃vornoun · masculine singulartagged: pit

As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.

Zechariah 9:11

• מִבּ֔וֹרmiborpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from a pit