בֹּאר
bor
“cistern”
Definition
a cistern
from H874 (בָּאַר);
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
בֹּאר appears 3 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!”
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,
“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.
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