Strong's Hebrew · H877

H877 bôʼr

בֹּאר

bore

cistern

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bôʼr appears 4 times in Scripture, in 2 Samuel 23:15, 2 Samuel 23:16 and Jeremiah 2:13. In the Doxa app, open each of these verses, keep your notes on them, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

a cistern

In the King James Version

cistern.

Derivation

from H874 (בָּאַר);

Appears 4 times in Scripture

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!””

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.”

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,”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).