bor
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bor: so
Original Word: בֹּר
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: bor
Phonetic Spelling: (bore)
Short Definition: so

I. בֹּר noun masculine lye, potash, alkali used in smelting metals Isaiah 1:25 **read probably כַּכֻּר as in a furnace (Isa 48:10); there seems no evidence that 'lye' (i.e. water mixed with the burnt ashes of plants containing potash, used formerly for washing) was ever used in refining gold or silver: compare J. NapierAnc. Workers in Metal {1856}, 15, 20, 25 WAM in SmithDB ii. 368; Amer. Rev. Ed. (1871, vol, iii), 1939. (see בֹּרִית).



never so, purely

The same as bor; vegetable lye (from its cleansing); used as a soap for washing, or a flux for metals -- X never so, purely.

see HEBREW bor

bār — 10 Occ.
hab·bār — 1 Occ.
ḇab·bār — 1 Occ.
ḇār — 2 Occ.
bā·rā — 6 Occ.
ḇā·rā — 2 Occ.
bə·ḇōr — 1 Occ.
kab·bōr — 1 Occ.
kə·ḇōr — 3 Occ.
kə·ḇō·rî — 1 Occ.
bā·rā — 5 Occ.
bā·rā·ṯā — 1 Occ.
bā·rā·ṯî — 3 Occ.
bā·rê — 2 Occ.
bə·hib·bā·rə·’ām — 1 Occ.
bə·rā- — 1 Occ.
bə·rā·’āh — 1 Occ.
bə·rā·’ām — 1 Occ.
bə·rā·’ā·nū — 1 Occ.
bə·rā·ṯîw — 2 Occ.


Strong's Hebrew 1253
1 Occurrence


bə·ḇōr — 1 Occ.

Job 9:30
BIB: ק) וַ֝הֲזִכּ֗וֹתִי בְּבֹ֣ר כַּפָּֽי׃
NAS: And cleanse my hands with lye,
INT: waste and cleanse lye my hands

1 Occurrence


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