BORE BOAR Bet-Vav-Resh
BORE בור [BR]
ROOTS: One can BORE a hole, or hollow out a BORE - from Old Norse bora (hole).
בור BOAR is a hole in Edenic too, as well as a grave ( קבר QeBHeR (grave) or PIT: "And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit and not cover it. . ." -- Exodus 21:33 The other ב-ר Bet-Resh word for a deeply dug water hole or WELL (shift bilabial and liquid) is the באר B’AiR (well of water --- Genesis 24:11). is the verb of digging with research (Ecclesiastes 9:1). A field that is not dug or cultivated is בור BOOR (fallow ). See “BARRIO” for uncultivated land, like the מדבר MiDBaR (wilderness) . For an uncultivated, hollow human BOOR, see “BOOR.” The world of beginning Genesis starts with a void filled in by ברא BaRAh (Creation). בריאBaReeYE is a healthy fatness, filling in with blessed growth like a ברכה BRaKHaH (blessing). Reversing to רב RaBH is also much, great volume, which is the opposite of a void, a hole.
Shift bilabials, B-to-P, for the PR ditch, and “open” words, like PRY from פער Pa’[E]R (wide open) at “PORE.”
ב-ר Bet- is reversed in a synonym, as ארבה ARooBaH is an opening, a chimney, window or floodgate (Genesis 7:11). A קבר QeBHeR (grave) is a) קבה QooBaH (compartment – see “CUBBY”) which is dug out ( ברBR) in the size of a pit– see this extension of בור BOAR at “CRYPT” and “GRAVE.” The world at Genesis begins with a void filled in by ברא BaRAh (Creation). בריא BaReeYE is a healthy fatness, filling in with blessed growth like aברכה BRaKHaH (blessing). Reversing to רב RaBH is about much, great volume -- the opposite of a void, a hole.
Akkadian būru is a pit; Arabic bįr is a well; Aramaic בארא B’AyRAh is a well or pit.
In Genesis 37:24 Joseph is thrown into an empty water cistern, a בור BOAR (pit). He will again be thrown into a בור BOAR, as the underground royal dungeon is called in Genesis 41:14. A bilabial shift away is פער P’[A]R is a space, gap; the verb of opening.
See “PRY” as well as “PORE” and “WELL.” More bilabial-liquid Hebrew words in this holey family appear below.
BRANCHES: Joseph’s underground prison cell or בור BOAR (Genesis 41:14) could help solve the mystery of BRIG. The sailor’s prison, BRIG, has no known origin. Borton (prison) is Hungarian. Also Uralic, Finnish pora is a drill to bore a hole.
קבר QeBHeR is a hole made to BURY a corpse, or a GRAVE (simply swap the V and R of GRAVE – see “GRAVE”). More fully, a קבר QeBHeR was often a cave tomb or a hollowed out burial niche - see "CAVITY" and Genesis 23:9. Beorg is cave and byrgeles is tomb in Old English. Old English had a tool to bore called a borian; it became a boren in Middle English; in Gaelic it’s a boireal.
Nature provides many animals with an anatomical BURIN or BORER (from Old High German boro) with which to BURY themselves in a BURROW. A VOLE (mouse-like rodent of unknown origin) burrows with its stiff snout. Its bilabial-liquid root from Edenic was preserved in Syriac-Aramaic, allowing the name נברן NaBH’RahN (burrower), which is also used for burrowers like the groundhog and badger.
In Albanian bire is a hole; birë is to bore a hole.
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German Furch , a FURROW, is only a bilabial shift from בור BoWR (pit) . The added OW of FURROW and BURROW may be from the Vav/vowel of בור BOAR read as the consonant V or W . The German verb to BORE is bohren. GERMANIC furrows: Danish and Norwegian fure; Dutch voor (Dutch groef , GROOVE, a reversed ב-ר, recalls GRAVE), Frisian furrow; Swedish fåra and Yiddish ferou פעראָו . |
Greek fréar or phrear φρέαρ, spring sounds closer to פער P’[A]R , but the meaning (more important in Edenics, and less important in secular etymology), suggests a S-B from באר B’AiR, spring, well, wáter-source.
The word usually means a cistern to store water; not a flowing water source, an עין [A]YiN. For the related meaning and music of openings, see “PORE.”
Hungarian drill is fúrό; to BORE or drill is fúr. Beal is an Irish furrow. Latin furrow is peraro.
Mayan (Achi/Mexico) woro, pierce < S-B בור BaRaH, to bore, drill a hole ; (Jacaltec) pulil, dig < חפר [K]HoaPHeR, to dig [GOPHER]; בור BO)R, to bore or dig; בור BOAR, a pit, grave, dungeon.
באר B'AiR means that essential deep hole to a water source called a "well;” ב-ר Bet-Resh is the same bilabial (lip letter) and liquid (l, r) found in WELL.
In Slavic, words for a water source share sound with a hole. There is:
IzVOR (source, spring, well, wellspring, fount) -- Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian and
VRelo (well, wellhead, fountainhead, springhead) -- Bosnian, Croatian, Slovene along with:
Bara is a pond in Serbian. Even if that pond wasn’t dug, it is a hole in the ground. See that lacuna we call a “LAKE.”
Spanish abrir , to open, barren, to drill, barrenar, to bore a hole < בור BOOR, to dig.
חפר [K]HoaPHaiR is to dig (see “GOPHER”); פער Pa’[A]hR is to open wide or PRY (Isaiah 5:14 ) and פיר PeeYR is a ditch ( see “PORE”). Parit is the Malay ditch. In Mayan: Jacaltec pulil, to dig.
APER-TURE, buraco (hole in Portugese), FORAMEN, FURROW and PORE are all a bilabial shift away from our BR root. Official cognates of BORE, listed at IE “root” bher (to cut, pierce, bore), include BARROW, BIFORATE, FORAMEN, PERFORATE (see Spanish below) and PHARYNX.
Spanish has perforación, boring a hole; perforadora, a drill and perforar, to bore.
Bur is a hole in both Sumarian and Latvian (Baltic).
SLAVIC displays independence from “Indo-European” (a language family designation which is more valid for grammar than for vocabulary). It does so with reversals of the bilabial-liquid pattern in the following “ditch” words: Bosnian rov (also a trench or moat), Bulgarian rov (also an excavation), Croatian rov, Macedonian rów, Polish rów (also trench or gully… like a RAVINE); Russian ditch: ров rov, Serbian rov (also a trench or moat) and Ukrainian: riv.
A RAVINE (gorge, deep narrow valley) may be another reversed בור BOAR (hole) than the given source: Latin rapere (to seize… as if cavemen were geologists, and named a natural ditch after the “rapine” of torrential water than formed the ravine.
Examining the BR root in Slavic:
בור BOAR, pit, dungeon, grave; (a cistern -- Genesis 37:24-- or any water-bearing, dug hole) ;
באר B’ER, water cistern, well, spring or other water source [WELL]
BaRa (puddle, pool) -- Bosnian
BaRa (pond) -- Serbian
BRázda (furrow, track, trough to water animals ) -- Czech, Slovak, Slovenian
RiV (ditch, moat, canal... for water) -- Ukranian ß
RoV (ditch) Bosnian (also: moat), Bulgarian and Croatian (also: pit,
trench),Macedonian, Russian ров , Serbian (also: a moat or sap2)< ß S-B
RóW (ditch, gully, trough to water animals) -- Polish ß S-B
Bet-Resh ב-ר BORING a hole (an activity that could lead to the empty vacuousness we call BOREDOM) gave rise to ברזה BeeRZAh (bung hole) in Jewish Aramaic. ברז BiRaZ means “he bored or perforated.” ברז BeReZ came to mean a tap, faucet or bung hole in Post-Biblical Hebrew. The Modern Greek tap is vrissi.