Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Honor; grace; favor; mercy; clemency; happy augury. 2. (n.) The native form of a metal, whether free and uncombined, as gold, copper, etc., or combined, as iron, lead, etc. Usually the ores contain the metals combined with oxygen, sulphur, arsenic, etc. (called mineralizers). 3. (n.) A native metal or its compound with the rock in which it occurs, after it has been picked over to throw out what is worthless. 4. (n.) Metal; as, the liquid ore.

Multi-Version Concordance Ore (5 Occurrences) Job 22:24 And put the precious ore with the dust, and the gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrents, (DBY) Job 22:25 Then the Almighty will be thy precious ore, and silver heaped up unto thee; (DBY) Job 28:2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore. (WEB RSV NIV) Job 28:3 Man putteth an end to the darkness, and exploreth to the utmost limit, the stones of darkness and of the shadow of death. (Root in DBY RSV NIV) Jeremiah 6:27 I have made you a tester among my people, so that you may have knowledge of their way and put it to the test. (See NIV)