Strong's Concordance H953

Original Word: בּוֹר
Transliteration: bôwr
Phonetic Spelling: bore
from H952 (in the sense of H877); a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison); cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well.

Usages throughout the bible

Genesis 37:20 - Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, H953 and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.

Genesis 37:22 - And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit H953 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 - And they took him, and cast him into a pit: H953 and the pit H953 was empty, there was no water in it.

Genesis 37:28 - Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, H953 and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.

Genesis 37:29 - And Reuben returned unto the pit; H953 and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; H953 and he rent his clothes.

Genesis 40:15 - 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. H953

Genesis 41:14 - Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: H953 and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.

Exodus 21:33 - And if a man shall open a pit, H953 or if a man shall dig a pit, H953 and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;

Exodus 21:34 - The owner of the pit H953 shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.

Leviticus 11:36 - Nevertheless a fountain or pit, H953 wherein there is plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase shall be unclean.

Deuteronomy 6:11 - And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells H953 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 - 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. H953

1 Samuel 19:22 - Then went he also to Ramah, and came to a great well H953 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 - And when Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, which brought him again from the well H953 of Sirah: but David knew it not.

2 Samuel 23:15 - And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well H953 of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!

2 Samuel 23:16 - And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well H953 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 - 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 H953 in time of snow:

2 Kings 10:14 - And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit H953 of the shearing house, even two and forty men; neither left he any of them.

2 Kings 18:31 - 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: H953

1 Chronicles 11:17 - And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well H953 of Bethlehem, that is at the gate!

1 Chronicles 11:18 - And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well H953 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 - 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 H953 in a snowy day.

2 Chronicles 26:10 - Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: H953 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 - And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells H953 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 - He made a pit, H953 and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

Psalms 28:1 - [[A Psalm of David.]] 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. H953

Psalms 30:3 - 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. H953

Psalms 40:2 - He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, H953 out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

Psalms 88:4 - I am counted with them that go down into the pit: H953 I am as a man that hath no strength:

Psalms 88:6 - Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, H953 in darkness, in the deeps.

Psalms 143:7 - 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. H953

Proverbs 1:12 - Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: H953

Proverbs 5:15 - Drink waters out of thine own cistern, H953 and running waters out of thine own well.

Proverbs 28:17 - A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; H953 let no man stay him.

Ecclesiastes 12:6 - 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. H953

Isaiah 14:15 - Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. H953

Isaiah 14:19 - 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; H953 as a carcase trodden under feet.

Isaiah 24:22 - And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, H953 and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.

Isaiah 36:16 - 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; H953

Isaiah 38:18 - For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit H953 cannot hope for thy truth.

Isaiah 51:1 - 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 H953 whence ye are digged.

Jeremiah 6:7 - As a fountain H953 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 38:6 - Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon H953 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 H953 there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.

Jeremiah 38:7 - 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; H953 the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;

Jeremiah 38:9 - 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; H953 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 - 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, H953 before he die.

Jeremiah 38:11 - 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 H953 to Jeremiah.

Jeremiah 38:13 - So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: H953 and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

Jeremiah 41:7 - 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, H953 he, and the men that were with him.

Jeremiah 41:9 - Now the pit H953 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.