H1253: בֹּר
bôr · pronounced bore · “lye”
Definition
vegetable lye (from its cleansing); used as a soap forwashing, or a flux formetals
KJV translates it as: [idiom] never so, purely.
Word origin: the same as H1252 (בֹּר);
Extended definition
lye, potash, alkali used in smelting metal
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H1253 is translated
- potash ×2
Bible verses with H1253 (bôr)
Bôr appears in 2 verses.
- Job 9:30
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
- Isaiah 1:25
And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin: