H1253
H1253 — בּוֹר
Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
bor (bore) n-m.
1. vegetable lye (from its cleansing)
2. used as a soap for washing, or a flux for metals
[the same as H1252]
KJV: X never so, purely.
Root(s): H1252
TWOT
TWOT: 288c
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KJV Renderings
X never so, purely.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced
BDB1353
I. בֹּר noun masculine lye, potash, alkali used in smelting metals Isa 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
).