בּוֹרbôwr

Meanings

Same root

• בּוּרbûwr · H952to bore, i.e. (figuratively) examine
• בֹּארbôʼr · H877a cistern

Where it appears

Appears 66 times in the Bible.

• Genesis 37:20 “Come on, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns. We can tell our father, ‘A wild animal has eaten him.’ Then we’ll see what becomes of his dreams!”
• Genesis 37:22 “Why should we shed any blood? Let’s just throw him into this empty cistern here in the wilderness. Then he’ll die without our laying a hand on him.” Reuben was secretly planning to rescue Joseph and return him to his father.
• Genesis 37:24 Then they grabbed him and threw him into the cistern. Now the cistern was empty; there was no water in it.
• Genesis 37:28 So when the Ishmaelites, who were Midianite traders, came by, Joseph’s brothers pulled him out of the cistern and sold him to them for twenty pieces of silver. And the traders took him to Egypt.
• Genesis 37:29 Some time later, Reuben returned to get Joseph out of the cistern. When he discovered that Joseph was missing, he tore his clothes in grief.
• Genesis 40:15 For I was kidnapped from my homeland, the land of the Hebrews, and now I’m here in prison, but I did nothing to deserve it.”