# בּוֹר (bor) Israeli respelling: bor. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H953. 62 Old Testament occurrences. a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison) King James renderings: cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well. Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/bor-h953 ## Occurrences - [Genesis 37:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/37/20) — 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 w… - [Genesis 37:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/37/22) — 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… - [Genesis 37:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/37/24) — And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it. - [Genesis 37:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/37/28) — Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twen… - [Genesis 37:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/37/29) — And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes. - [Genesis 40:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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. - [Genesis 41:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/41/14) — Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and c… - [Exodus 12:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/12/29) — 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… - [Exodus 21:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/21/33) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/21/34) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/36) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/6/11) — And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which th… - [1 Samuel 13:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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… - [1 Samuel 19:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/19/22) — 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, Beh… - [2 Samuel 3:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/3/26) — 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 no… - [2 Samuel 23:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 do… - [2 Kings 10:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/10/14) — 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 lef… - [2 Kings 18:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 ev… - [1 Chronicles 11:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/11/17) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/11/18) — 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, an… - [1 Chronicles 11:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 do… - [2 Chronicles 26:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/26/10) — 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 a… - [Nehemiah 9:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/9/25) — And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit tre… - [Psalms 7:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/7/15) — He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. - [Psalms 28:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/28/1) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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. - [Psalms 40:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/40/2) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/88/4) — I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: - [Psalms 88:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/88/6) — Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. - [Psalms 143:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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. - [Proverbs 1:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/1/12) — Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: - [Proverbs 5:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/5/15) — Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. - [Proverbs 28:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/28/17) — A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him. - [Ecclesiastes 12:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 ciste… - [Isaiah 14:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/14/15) — Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. - [Isaiah 14:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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… - [Isaiah 24:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/24/22) — 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 th… - [Isaiah 36:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 o… - [Isaiah 38:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/38/18) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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… - [Jeremiah 6:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/6/7) — 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… - [Jeremiah 37:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/37/16) — When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days; - [Jeremiah 38:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/38/6) — 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… - [Jeremiah 38:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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; the k… - [Jeremiah 38:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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; and he… - [Jeremiah 38:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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… - [Jeremiah 38:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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… - [Jeremiah 38:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/38/13) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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… - [Jeremiah 41:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/41/9) — 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 m… - [Lamentations 3:53](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/3/53) — They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. - [Lamentations 3:55](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/3/55) — I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon. - [Ezekiel 26:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/26/20) — 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 e… - [Ezekiel 31:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/31/14) — 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, n… - [Ezekiel 31:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/31/16) — 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 o… - [Ezekiel 32:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/32/18) — 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 o… - [Ezekiel 32:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/32/23) — 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 cause… - [Ezekiel 32:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/32/24) — 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 t… - [Ezekiel 32:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/32/25) — 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… - [Ezekiel 32:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/32/29) — 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 th… - [Ezekiel 32:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/32/30) — 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 asham… - [Zechariah 9:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/9/11) — As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.