BOSOR:

By: Morris Jastrow, Jr., Gerson B. Levi

1. A city of Gilead, which Judas Maccabeus conquered (I Macc. v. 26, 36). It may be identified with the modern "Buṣr el-Bariri" (Buhl, "Geographie des Alten Palästina," p. 253). 2. The Septuagint reading for Besor (I Sam. xxx. 9).

J. Jr. G. B. L.