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Bible Lexicons

Old & New Testament Greek Lexical DictionaryGreek Lexicon

Strong's #1004 - βόρβορος

Transliteration

bórboros

Phonetics

bor'-bor-os

Origin

of uncertain derivation

Parts of Speech

masculine noun

TDNT

None

Definition

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Thayer's

dung, mire

Hebrew Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 2916 ‑ טִיט (teet);

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

Verse Results

ASV (1)

2 Peter 1

BSB (1)

2 Peter 1

CSB (1)

2 Peter 1

ESV (1)

2 Peter 1

KJV (1)

2 Peter 1

LEB (0)

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

LSB (1)

2 Peter 1

N95 (1)

2 Peter 1

NAS (1)

2 Peter 1

NLT (1)

2 Peter 2

WEB (1)

2 Peter 1

YLT (1)

2 Peter 1

ASV (1)

in the mire 1

BSB (1)

in the mud 1

CSB (1)

the mud 1

ESV (1)

mire 1

KJV (1)

mire 1

LEB (0)

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

LSB (1)

mire 1

N95 (1)

mire 1

NAS (1)

mire 1

NLT (1)

mud 1

WEB (1)

in the mire 1

YLT (1)

in mire 1

RAH

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

SWE

N-GSM 1

ANT

N-GSM 1

BEZ

N-GSM 1

BGB

N-GSM 1

BMT

N-GSM 1

BYZ

N-GSM 1

ELZ

N-GSM 1

NA26

N-GSM 1

SBL

N-GSM 1

SCV

N-GSM 1

STV

N-GSM 1

TIS

N-GSM 1

TRG

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

βόρβορος, ὁ,

mire, filth, Asius 1, Heraclit. 13, A. Eu. 694, Ar. V. 259, Pl. Phd. 69c, LXX Je 45.6, 2 Peter 2:22. etc.: distd. fr. πηλός clay, moist earth, Luc. Prom. Ezekiel 1:1-28; sewer, Hsch.: metaph., foul abuse, τοσοῦτον β. κατήντλησάς μου Luc. Lex. 17.

Thayer's Expanded Definition

βόρβορος, βορβόρου, ὁ, dung, mire: 2 Peter 2:22. (the Sept.; Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Plato, and following; ἐν βορβόρῳ κυλίεσθαι, of the vicious, Epictetus diss. 4, 11, 29.)

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

βόρβορος , -ου , ὁ ,

[in LXX: Jeremiah 38:6 (H2916)*;]

mud, filth: 2 Peter 2:22.†

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

Vocabulary of the Greek NT

For this word which is found in Bibl. Grk only in LXX Jer. 45:6 [MT Jeremiah 38:6] and 2 Peter 2:22, cf. Apoc. Petr. 8 καὶ λίμνη τις ἦν μεγάλη πεπληρωμένη βορβόρου φλεγομένου , also Acta Thomae (ed. Bonnet) 53 εἶδον βόρβορον . . . καὶ ψυχὰς ἐκεῖ κυλιομένας . Both the noun and the corresponding verb occur in the Pelagia-Legenden, p. 6.21 ff. (ed. Usener) : ἐλθοῦσα περιστερὰ με ̣λάνη καὶ βεβορβορωμένη περιεπέτατό μοι , καί τὴν δυσωδίαν τοῦ βορβόρου αὐτῆς οὐκ ἠδυνάμην φέρειν . See also Wendland in Sitz. Berl. Akad. 1898, p. 788 ff., ";Ein Wort des Heraklit im Neuen Testament,"; with reference to 2 Peter 2:22.

List of Word Forms

βόρβορος βορβορου βορβόρου βορβόρω borborou borbórou