Cleanness
בֹּרStrong’s H1252bor
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bor is the Hebrew word usually translated “according to cleanness of”, “according to cleanness my” and “cleanness of”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.”
Meaning
- Cleanness, pureness
How it's translated
- according to cleanness of 3
- according to cleanness my 1
- by cleanness of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 2
- Psalms 2
- Job 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 22:25Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.
- Job 22:30He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.
- Psalms 18:20The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
- Psalms 18:24Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
Hebrew dictionary
בֹּר bor · cleanness
cleanness, pureness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cleanness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CLEANNESS, noun
- Freedom from dirt, filth, and foreign matter; neatness.
- Freedom from infection or a foul disease.
- Exactness; purity; justness; correctness; used of language or style; as, cleanness of expression.
- Purity; innocence.
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.