1253 - bor

Strong's Concordance

Original word: בֹּר
Transliteration: bor
Definition (short): so
Definition (full): vegetable lye, a soap for, washing, a flux for, metals

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

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

KJV: If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
NASB: "If I should wash myself with snow And cleanse my hands with lye,
KJV: Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.
NASB: "Their offspring become strong, they grow up in the open field; They leave and do not return to them.
KJV: And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
NASB: "I will also turn My hand against you, And will smelt away your dross as with lye And will remove all your alloy.