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Strong's H953 בּוֹר (bor)

Bor means “cistern” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G953 — bebeloo (“profane”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H953
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 65
Books 19

Strong's H953 Quick Answer

Strong's H953 בּוֹר (bowr) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. bowr (bore) n-m. 1. a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison) [from H952 (in the sense of H877)] It has 65 linked Bible usages across 19 books. Visible English usage signals include pit, dungeon, one, wells, and well. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
bowr (bore) n-m. 1. a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison) [from H952 (in the sense of H877)]
Usage
65 linked usages
Books
19 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
pit, dungeon, one, wells, and well

Meaning and Definition

bowr (bore) n-m. 1. a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison) [from H952 (in the sense of H877)] KJV: cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well. Root(s): H952, H877

Original Word
בּוֹר
Transliteration
bowr
Derivation
Root: בור First root strongs: 952 Second root strongs: 877
Morphology
noun masc

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H953. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H953 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render bowr, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

pit Genesis 37:20 37× dungeon Exodus 12:29 one 1 Samuel 19:22 well 2 Samuel 3:26 wells Deuteronomy 6:11 cistern Proverbs 5:15 prison Jeremiah 38:6 fountain Jeremiah 6:7 pits 1 Samuel 13:6

How Strong's H953 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 65 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H953 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H953 in the Old Testament

65 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 37:20 KJV

Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.

Genesis 37:22 KJV

And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again.

Genesis 37:24 KJV

And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.

Usage Excerpts

First 65 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H953.

Genesis 37:20 Old Testament, KJV
Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
Genesis 37:22 Old Testament, KJV
And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again.
Genesis 37:24 Old Testament, KJV
And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.
Genesis 37:28 Old Testament, KJV
Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.
Genesis 37:29 Old Testament, KJV
And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.
Genesis 40:15 Old Testament, KJV
For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
Genesis 41:14 Old Testament, KJV
Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.
Exodus 12:29 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
Exodus 21:33 Old Testament, KJV
And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
Exodus 21:34 Old Testament, KJV
The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.
Leviticus 11:36 Old Testament, KJV
Nevertheless a fountain or pit, wherein there is plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase shall be unclean.
Deuteronomy 6:11 Old Testament, KJV
And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;
1 Samuel 13:6 Old Testament, KJV
When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
1 Samuel 19:22 Old Testament, KJV
Then went he also to Ramah, and came to a great well that is in Sechu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? And one said, Behold, they be at Naioth in Ramah.
2 Samuel 3:26 Old Testament, KJV
And when Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, which brought him again from the well of Sirah: but David knew it not.
2 Samuel 23:15 Old Testament, KJV
And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!
2 Samuel 23:16 Old Testament, KJV
And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD.
2 Samuel 23:20 Old Testament, KJV
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:
2 Kings 10:14 Old Testament, KJV
And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, even two and forty men; neither left he any of them.
2 Kings 18:31 Old Testament, KJV
Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:
1 Chronicles 11:17 Old Testament, KJV
And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, that is at the gate!
1 Chronicles 11:18 Old Testament, KJV
And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD.
1 Chronicles 11:22 Old Testament, KJV
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lionlike men of Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.
2 Chronicles 26:10 Old Testament, KJV
Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.
Nehemiah 9:25 Old Testament, KJV
And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
Psalms 7:15 Old Testament, KJV
He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
Psalms 28:1 Old Testament, KJV
Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
Psalms 30:3 Old Testament, KJV
O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
Psalms 40:2 Old Testament, KJV
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
Psalms 88:4 Old Testament, KJV
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
Psalms 88:6 Old Testament, KJV
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
Psalms 143:7 Old Testament, KJV
Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
Proverbs 1:12 Old Testament, KJV
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
Proverbs 5:15 Old Testament, KJV
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Proverbs 28:17 Old Testament, KJV
A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.
Ecclesiastes 12:6 Old Testament, KJV
Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
Isaiah 14:15 Old Testament, KJV
Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Isaiah 14:19 Old Testament, KJV
But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
Isaiah 24:22 Old Testament, KJV
And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
Isaiah 36:16 Old Testament, KJV
Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;
Isaiah 38:18 Old Testament, KJV
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Isaiah 51:1 Old Testament, KJV
Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
Jeremiah 6:7 Old Testament, KJV
As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.
Jeremiah 37:16 Old Testament, KJV
When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
Jeremiah 38:6 Old Testament, KJV
Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
Jeremiah 38:7 Old Testament, KJV
Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;
Jeremiah 38:9 Old Testament, KJV
My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.
Jeremiah 38:10 Old Testament, KJV
Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.
Jeremiah 38:11 Old Testament, KJV
So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
Jeremiah 38:13 Old Testament, KJV
So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
Jeremiah 41:7 Old Testament, KJV
And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that were with him.
Jeremiah 41:9 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Lamentations 3:53 Old Testament, KJV
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
Lamentations 3:55 Old Testament, KJV
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
Ezekiel 26:20 Old Testament, KJV
When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;
Ezekiel 31:14 Old Testament, KJV
To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
Ezekiel 31:16 Old Testament, KJV
I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
Ezekiel 32:18 Old Testament, KJV
Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
Ezekiel 32:23 Old Testament, KJV
Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.
Ezekiel 32:24 Old Testament, KJV
There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.
Ezekiel 32:25 Old Testament, KJV
They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain.
Ezekiel 32:29 Old Testament, KJV
There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.
Ezekiel 32:30 Old Testament, KJV
There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.
Zephaniah 2:9 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
Zechariah 9:11 Old Testament, KJV
As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H953, grouped by book.

Genesis 7 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 3 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 1 usage, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Samuel 2 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 4 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 2 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 3 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Psalms 7 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 3 usages, Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 6 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 10 usages, Old Testament
Lamentations 2 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 9 usages, Old Testament
Zephaniah 1 usage, Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H953 FAQ

What does bor (בּוֹר) mean?

Bor (Strong's H953) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "cistern". bowr (bore) n-m. 1. a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison) [from H952 (in the sense of H877)]

How many times is bor (בּוֹר) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 65 linked usages for Strong's H953 across 19 books.

Where can I study bor (בּוֹר) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H953 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate bor (בּוֹר)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as pit, dungeon, one, wells, well, and cistern. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.