Lye
בֹּרStrong’s H1253bor
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bor is the Hebrew word usually translated “potash” and “like potash”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;”
Meaning
- Lye, potash, alkali used in smelting metal
How it's translated
- with potash 1
- like potash 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
בֹּר bor · lye
lye, potash, alkali used in smelting metal
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lye” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LYE, noun
[Latin lix, whence lixivium; Ant. Latin lixa, whence Lugdunum, Leyden, Lyons, that is Water-town.]
All definitions and other forms of “lye”
LYE, noun
A falsehod. [See Lie.]
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.