Mire
בֹּץStrong’s H1206bots
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Bots is the Hebrew word usually translated “mire”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah’s house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back.”
Meaning
- Mire
How it's translated
- in the mire 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
בֹּץ bots · mire
mire
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “mire” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MIRE, noun
Deep mud; earth so wet and soft as to yield to the feet and to wheels.
All definitions and other forms of “mire”
MIRE, verb transitive
To plunge and fix in mire; to set or stall in mud. We say, a horse, an ox or a carriage is mired, when it has sunk deep into mud and its progress is stopped.
- To soil or daub with mud or foul matter.
MIRE, verb intransitive
To sink in mud, or to sink so deep as to be unable to move forward.
MIRE, noun
An ant. [See Pismire.]
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.