Quick Definition
mud, mire, filth
Strong's Definition
mud
Derivation: of uncertain derivation;
KJV Usage: mire
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
βόρβορος, βορβόρου, ὁ, dung, mire: 2Pe_2:22. (the Sept.; Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Plato, and following; ἐν βορβόρῳ κυλίεσθαι, of the vicious, Epictetus diss. 4, 11, 29.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
βόρβορος borboros 1x
mud, mire, dung, filth, 2Pe_2:22
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
βόρβορος , -ου , ὁ ,
[in LXX : Jer_38:6 ( H2916 ) * ;]
mud, filth: 2Pe_2:22 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
βόρβορος [page 114]
For this word which is found in Bibl. Grk only in LXX Jer. 45:6 [MT Jer_38:6 ] and 2Pe_2:22 , cf. Apoc. Petr. 8 καὶ λίμνη τις ἦν μεγάλη πεπληρωμένη βορβόρου φλεγομένου , also Acta Thomae (ed. Bonnet) 53 εἶδον βόρβορον . . . καὶ ψυχὰς ἐκεῖ κυλιομένας . Both the noun and the corresponding verb occur in the Pelagia-Legenden , p. 6 .21 ff. (ed. Usener) : ἐλθοῦσα περιστερὰ με̣λάνη καὶ βεβορβορωμένη περιεπέτατό μοι , καί τὴν δυσωδίαν τοῦ βορβόρου αὐτῆς οὐκ ἠδυνάμην φέρειν . See also Wendland in Sitz. Berl. Akad. 1898, p. 788 ff., Ein Wort des Heraklit im Neuen Testament, with reference to 2Pe_2:22 .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
βόρβορος "mud, mire", Lat. coenum, Aesch. , Ar. , etc.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
βόρβορος, -ου, ὁ,
[in LXX: Je 45(38):6 (טִיט)* ;]
mud, filth: 2Pe.2:22.†
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