Strong's Hebrew · H1253

בֹּר

bôr · bore

[idiom] never so, purely.

Definition

vegetable lye (from its cleansing); used as a soap forwashing, or a flux formetals

Derivation

the same as H1252 (בֹּר);

Appears 2 times in Scripture

Isaiah 1:25

I will turn My hand against you; I will thoroughly purge your dross; I will remove all your impurities.

Job 9:30

If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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