בֹּארbôʼr

cistern, pit, well (Jeremiah 2:13; 2 Samuel 23:15; 2 Samuel 23:16; 2 Samuel 23:20)

Pronunciation: bore · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H877

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 4 times in the Bible.

2 Samuel 23:15 David remarked longingly to his men, “Oh, how I would love some of that good water from the well by the gate in Bethlehem.”
2 Samuel 23:16 So the Three broke through the Philistine lines, drew some water from the well by the gate in Bethlehem, and brought it back to David. But he refused to drink it. Instead, he poured it out as an offering to the Lord.
Jeremiah 2:13 “For my people have done two evil things: They have abandoned me— the fountain of living water. And they have dug for themselves cracked cisterns that can hold no water at all!

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2 Samuel 23:15, 23:16
Jeremiah 2:13

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).