Lye
בֹּרִיתStrong’s H1287borit (bo-rit)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Borit is the Hebrew word usually translated “soap” and “like soap of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.”
Meaning
- Lye, potash, soap, alkali (used in washing)
How it's translated
- soap 1
- and like soap of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 1
- Malachi 1
2 books in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
בֹּרִית borit · lye
lye, potash, soap, alkali (used in washing)
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.