Cistern
בֹּארStrong’s H0877bor
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bor is the Hebrew word usually translated “from well of” and “cisterns”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”
Meaning
- Cistern, pit, well
How it's translated
- from well of 2
- cisterns 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 2
- Jeremiah 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 23:16And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD.
- Jeremiah 2:13For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Hebrew dictionary
בֹּאר bor · cistern
cistern, pit, well
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cistern” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CISTERN, noun
- An artificial reservoir or receptacle for holding water, beer or other liquor, as in domestic uses, distilleries, and breweries.
- A natural reservoir; a hollow place containing water; as a fountain or lake.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.