בור I

בּוּרI (√בה, v. בהה) to be empty, waste, uncultivated. Y.Dem.VI, 25b top שלא תָבוּרא״י in order that Palestine should not lie waste. Ib. יובירו ואלוכ׳; (read as) Y.Ab. Zar. I, end, 40b יָבוּרוּ let them rather lie waste than rent them to a gentile.Part. בָּר, בָּרָה a. בֹּורָה. B. Mets. 101a שתהא ברה בידו in order that the field may rather lie waste in his own possession; cmp. Y. l. c. (Rashi fr. ברר to be clear and firm in his possession, by buying it back from the gentile. R. Ḥan., in Tosaf. a. l., בֹּורָה, lying waste in the gentiles possession; v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 90. B. Bath. 168a לא צריכא (דאפי׳) בבורה (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) it means to say that even in the case of an unbroken field being rented, the tenant has to pay the scribes fees; Rashi: even if the field will have to lie fallow for some time to come yet. (Cmp. part. fem. חֹולָה fr. חוּל. Hif. הֵבִיר a. הֹובִיר (fr. יבר, or אבר) to let lie waste; to neglect. Arakh.IX, 1 (29b) הֵבִירָהּ (הֹו׳) if he let it untilled. Ex. R. s. 27, end הֹובִירָהּ. B. Mets.IX, 3 הו׳ (Y. ed. הב׳). Gen. R. s. 82 מֵבִירָן (מוֹבִירָן; Koh. R. to IV, 6 מְבַיְּירָן Pi.). Pi. בִּיֵּיר 1) same. Koh. R. l. c., v. supra. Ex. R. s. 32 (play on שית in אשיתך Jer. 3:19) בִּיַּירְתֶּם עצמיכם. ye neglected yourselves (mentally). 2) (denom. of בּוֹר or II בִּיר) to prepare a pitfall, to entrap. Lev. R. s. 19; v. בִּירָנִית 2).