Strong’s definition
vegetable lye (from its cleansing); used as a soap forwashing, or a flux formetals
KJV gloss list in the source
[idiom] never so, purely.
Source pronunciation notation: bore
Derivation recorded by Strong
the same as H1252 (בֹּר);
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