Pit
בּוֹרStrong’s H0953bor
Appears in 61 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bor is the Hebrew word usually translated “pit”, “cistern” and “own cistern his”. It appears in 61 verses of the Old Testament.
“As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.”
Meaning
- Pit, well, cistern, dungeon, pit of the grave
- Cistern of Sirah
How it's translated
- pit 20
- the cistern 8
- the pit 7
- a pit 4
- in the pit 3
- own cistern his 2
- from well of 2
- wells 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 9
- Ezekiel 9
- Genesis 7
- Psalms 7
- Isaiah 6
- Exodus 3
18 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 37:20Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
- Genesis 37:22And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again.
- Genesis 37:24And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.
- Genesis 37:28Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.
- Genesis 37:29And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.
- Genesis 40:15For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
All 61 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
בּוֹר bor · pit
pit, well, cistern, dungeon, pit of the grave
בּוֹר bor · Cistern
Cistern of Sirah
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pit” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PIT, verb transitive
To indent; to press into hollows.
- To mark with little hollows, as by variolous pustules; as the face pitted by the small pocks.
- To set in competition, as in combat.
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.