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# בְּשׂוֹר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1308

**Besor** — used 3 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

Besor [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1308/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בְּשׂוֹר: n.pr. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1308/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. of brook in Philistine territory: always נַחַל הַבְּשׂוֹר 1 S 30:9, 10, 21; 𝔊 Βοσορ (v 21 Βεανα, but 𝔊L Βοσορ); mod. Wady Ṛazze (Gaza) according to Guérin Judée ii. 213;—it empties into sea SW of Gaza. (Connexion with above √ dub.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 30:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.30.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.30.10/#tree)

וַיִּרְדֹּ֣ף דָּוִ֔ד ה֖וּא וְאַרְבַּע־מֵא֣וֹת אִ֑ישׁ וַיַּֽעַמְדוּ֙ מָאתַ֣יִם אִ֔ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֣ר פִּגְּר֔וּ מֵעֲבֹ֖ר אֶת־נַ֥חַל הַבְּשֽׂוֹר׃

*Word for word:* and he.pursued David he and four hundred(s) man and they.remained two.hundred man who they.were.\[too\].exhausted for passing.over (et) the.wadi of.(the) Besor

*JPS 1917:* But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.

[1 Samuel 30:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.30.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.30.9/#tree)

וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ דָּוִ֗ד ה֚וּאוְשֵׁשׁ־מֵא֥וֹת אִישׁ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אִתּ֔וֹ וַיָּבֹ֖אוּ עַד־נַ֣חַל הַבְּשׂ֑וֹר וְהַנּֽוֹתָרִ֖ים עָמָֽדוּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.went David he and six hundred(s) man who \[were\].with him and they.came to the.wadi of.(the) Besor and \[those who.were\].left.behind they.remained

*JPS 1917:* So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1308.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1308/): 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).