H877 - בֹּאר (bôʼr)

H877 בֹּאר (bôʼr) bore

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

cistern

Strong's Definition

a cistern

Derivation: from H874 (בָּאַר);

KJV Usage: cistern.

TWOT Reference: 194d

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) cistern, pit, well

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

cistern, pit, well

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

בֹּאר bôr BDB Definition: 1) cistern, pit, well Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H874 Same Word by TWOT Number: 194d Total KJV Occurrences: 2

Bible Occurrences (3)

23:15 23:16

2:13

2 Samuel 23:15

David longed [for water] and said, Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem -!

2 Samuel 23:16

So the three mighty men broke through the Philistine camp, drew water from the well near the gate... of Bethlehem, and brought [it] back to David. But he refused... to drink it; instead, he poured it out to the LORD,

Jeremiah 2:13

For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns — broken cisterns that cannot hold water.