◄ 1253. bor ►
Strong's Lexicon bor: Purity, cleanness Original Word: בֹּר Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: bor Pronunciation: bohr Phonetic Spelling: (bore) Definition: Purity, cleanness Meaning: vegetable lye, a soap for, washing, a flux for, metals Brown-Driver-Briggs I. בֹּר noun masculine lye, potash, alkali used in smelting metals Isaiah 1:25 **read probably כַּכֻּר as in a furnace (Isa 48:10); there seems no evidence that 'lye' (i.e. water mixed with the burnt ashes of plants containing potash, used formerly for washing) was ever used in refining gold or silver: compare J. NapierAnc. Workers in Metal {1856}, 15, 20, 25 WAM in SmithDB ii. 368; Amer. Rev. Ed. (1871, vol, iii), 1939. (see בֹּרִית). Strong's Exhaustive Concordance never so, purely The same as bor; vegetable lye (from its cleansing); used as a soap for washing, or a flux for metals -- X never so, purely. see HEBREW bor Forms and Transliterations בְּבֹ֣ר בבר bə·ḇōr bəḇōr beVor Links Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts Englishman's Concordance Job 9:30 HEB: ק) וַ֝הֲזִכּ֗וֹתִי בְּבֹ֣ר כַּפָּֽי׃ NAS: And cleanse my hands with lye, INT: waste and cleanse lye my hands 1 Occurrence Strong's Hebrew 1253 1 Occurrence bə·ḇōr — 1 Occ.