Definition

vegetable lye (from its cleansing); used as a soap forwashing, or a flux formetals

Etymology

the same as H1252 (בֹּר);

Word family

• בֹּר bôr

How the KJV renders it

• never so
• purely

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.