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# בֹּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1252

**cleanness** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

cleanness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1252/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בֹּר²: n.m. cleanness, pureness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1252/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. cleanness, pureness: בֹּר יָדַי cleanness of my hands 2 S 22:21 (= ψ 18:21) ψ 18:25 (= בֹּרִי my cleanness 2 S 22:25); בֹּר כַּף Jb 22:30.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (17 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: to the cleanness (3); the cleanness (1); to (1).

## In the verses

[Job 22:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.22.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.22.30/#tree)

יְֽמַלֵּ֥טאִֽי־נָקִ֑י וְ֝נִמְלַ֗ט בְּבֹ֣ר כַּפֶּֽיךָ׃פ

*Word for word:* he.will.deliver not an.innocent.\[person\] and he.will.be.delivered by the.cleanness your.palms your

*JPS 1917:* He delivereth him that is innocent, yea, thou shalt be delivered through the cleanness of thy hands.

[2 Samuel 22:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.21/#tree)

יִגְמְלֵ֥נִי יְהוָ֖ה כְּצִדְקָתִ֑י כְּבֹ֥ר יָדַ֖י יָשִׁ֥יב לִֽי׃

*Word for word:* he dealt.with.me Yahweh according to my.righteousness according to.the.cleanness my.hands my he.repaid to me

*JPS 1917:* The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath He recompensed me.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1252.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1252/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).