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Jeremiah 41:9
“Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, was it which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with them that were slain.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H953 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison)
- Derivation
- from H952 (בּוּר) (in the sense of H877 (בֹּאר));
- KJV renderings
- cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- הַ — particle (definite article)
- בּ֗וֹר — common noun, masculine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 68 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 37:20Genesis 37:22Genesis 37:24Genesis 37:24Genesis 37:28
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read בּוֹר here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.