Lexical Summary bor: lye, potash Original Word: בֹּרTransliteration: bor Phonetic Spelling: (bore) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: lye, potash Meaning: vegetable lye, a soap for, washing, a flux for, metals Strong's Concordance never so, purely The same as bor; vegetable lye (from its cleansing); used as a soap for washing, or a flux for metals -- X never so, purely. see HEBREW bor Brown-Driver-Briggs H1253. bor I. בֹּר noun masculine lye, potash, alkali used in smelting metals Isaiah 1:25 **read probably כַּכֻּר as in a furnace (48:10); there seems no evidence that 'lye' (i.e. water mixed with the burnt ashes of plants containing potash, used formerly for washing) was ever used in refining gold or silver: compare J. NapierAnc. Workers in Metal {1856}, 15, 20, 25 WAM in SmithDB ii. 368; Amer. Rev. Ed. (1871, vol, iii), 1939. (see בֹּרִית). |
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