בֹּר

«בֹּר» in the Tanakh dictionary: lye — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

Used: 2 times · Key: 1253 · BDB: בֹּר

Glosses

potash (2)

Meaning (OSHB)

lye tree →

Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. lye, potash tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. lye, potash, alkali used in smelting metals Is 1:25; Jb 9:30 (see בֹּרִית. Is 1:25 read prob. כַּכֻּר as in a furnace (Is 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: cf. J. NapierAnc. Workers in Metal (1856), 15, 20, 25 WAW in SmithDB ii, 368; Amer. Rev. Ed. (1871, vol. iii), 1939.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (17 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (10 candidates)

Trees and pragmatics

Every English meaning of «בֹּר» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

In the verses

Job 9:30

אִם־הִתְרָחַ֥צְתִּי בְמֵי־שָׁ֑לֶג וַ֝הֲזִכּ֗וֹתִי בְּבֹ֣ר כַּפָּֽי׃

Word for word: if I.washed.myself in water of.snow and I.cleansed with potash palms my

JPS 1917: If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

Isaiah 1:25

וְאָשִׁ֤יבָה יָדִי֙ עָלַ֔יִךְ וְאֶצְרֹ֥ף כַּבֹּ֖ר סִיגָ֑יִךְ וְאָסִ֖ירָה כָּל־בְּדִילָֽיִךְ׃

Word for word: and I.will.turn hand my on you and I.will.refine like (the) potash dross(es) your and I.will.remove all slag(s) your

JPS 1917: And I will turn My hand upon thee, and purge away thy dross as with lye, and will take away all thine alloy;

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