בּוֹא

boto come (in): comeHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb2,569 occurrences39 books2,306 verses
This word comes from the name of Hamath.

Definition

a primitive root; to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
Traditional renderings: abide, apply, attain, × be, befall, besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, × certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, × doubtless again, eat, employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, have, × indeed, (in-) vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, × (well) stricken (in age), × surely, take (in), way.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders בּוֹא:

Glossary entries

Hamath Lebo-Hamath

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

2,569 total
  1. Numbers 31:23יָבֹ֣א · can withstand; יָבֹ֛א · withstand
    …everything that can withstand the fire—must be put through the fire, and it will be clean. But it must still be purified with the water of purification. And everything that cannot withstand the fire must pass through the water.
  2. Numbers 31:24תָּבֹ֥אוּ · you may enter
    On the seventh day you are to wash your clothes, and you will be clean. After that you may enter the camp.”
  3. Numbers 31:54וַיָּבִ֤אוּ · and brought
    And Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds and brought it into the Tent of Meeting as a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD.
  4. Numbers 32:2וַיָּבֹ֥אוּ · came
    So the Gadites and Reubenites came to Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the congregation, and said,
  5. Numbers 32:6יָבֹ֙אוּ֙ · go
    But Moses asked the Gadites and Reubenites, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?
  6. Numbers 32:9בֹא֙ · entering
    For when your fathers went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land that the LORD had given them.
  7. Numbers 32:17הֲבִֽיאֹנֻ֖ם · we have brought them
    But we will arm ourselves and be ready to go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them into their place. Meanwhile, our little ones will remain in the fortified cities for protection from the inhabitants of the land.
  8. Numbers 32:19בָ֤אָה
    Yet we will not have an inheritance with them across the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on the east side of the Jordan.”
  9. Numbers 33:9וַיָּבֹ֖אוּ · and came
    They set out from Marah and came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.
  10. Numbers 33:40בְּבֹ֖א · were coming
    Now the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard that the Israelites were coming.
  11. Numbers 34:2בָּאִ֖ים · enter
    “Command the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan, it will be allotted to you as an inheritance with these boundaries:
  12. Numbers 34:8לְבֹ֣א
    …and from Mount Hor to Lebo-hamath, then extend to Zedad,
  13. Deuteronomy 1:7וּבֹ֨אוּ · and go
    Resume your journey and go to the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the foothills, in the Negev, and along the seacoast to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great River Euphrates.
  14. Deuteronomy 1:8בֹּ֚אוּ · Enter
    See, I have placed the land before you. Enter and possess the land that the LORD swore He would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants after them.”
  15. Deuteronomy 1:19וַנָּבֹ֕א · When we reached
    And just as the LORD our God had commanded us, we set out from Horeb and went toward the hill country of the Amorites, through all the vast and terrifying wilderness you have seen. When we reached Kadesh-barnea,
  16. Deuteronomy 1:20בָּאתֶם֙ · You have reached
    I said: “You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us.
  17. Deuteronomy 1:22נָבֹ֖א · to enter
    Then all of you approached me and said, “Let us send men ahead of us to search out the land and bring us word of what route to follow and which cities to enter.”
  18. Deuteronomy 1:24וַיָּבֹ֖אוּ · and came
    They left and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied out the land.
  19. Deuteronomy 1:31בֹּאֲכֶ֖ם · you reached
    …and in the wilderness, where the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way by which you traveled until you reached this place.”
  20. Deuteronomy 1:37תָבֹ֥א · shall enter
    The LORD was also angry with me on your account, and He said, “Not even you shall enter the land.
  21. Deuteronomy 1:38יָ֣בֹא · will enter
    Joshua son of Nun, who stands before you, will enter it. Encourage him, for he will enable Israel to inherit the land.
  22. Deuteronomy 1:39יָבֹ֣אוּ · will enter
    And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.
  23. Deuteronomy 4:1וּבָאתֶם֙ · and may enter
    Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
  24. Deuteronomy 4:5בָּאִ֥ים · are about to enter
    See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land that you are about to enter and possess.
  25. Deuteronomy 4:21בֹא֙ · to enter
    The LORD, however, was angry with me on account of you, and He swore that I would not cross the Jordan to enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
  26. Deuteronomy 4:34לָ֠בוֹא
    Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?
  27. Deuteronomy 4:38לַהֲבִֽיאֲךָ֗ · and to bring you
    …to drive out before you nations greater and mightier than you, and to bring you into their land and give it to you for your inheritance, as it is this day.
  28. Deuteronomy 6:10יְבִיאֲךָ֣׀ · brings
    And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build,
  29. Deuteronomy 6:18וּבָ֗אתָ · and that you may enter
    Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you and that you may enter and possess the good land that the LORD your God swore to give your fathers,
  30. Deuteronomy 6:23הָבִ֣יא · lead us in
    But He brought us out from there to lead us in and give us the land that He had sworn to our fathers.
  31. Deuteronomy 7:1יְבִֽיאֲךָ֙ · brings; בָא־ · are entering
    When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—
  32. Deuteronomy 7:26תָבִ֤יא · bring
    And you must not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. You are to utterly detest and abhor it, because it is set apart for destruction.
  33. Deuteronomy 8:1וּבָאתֶם֙ · and enter
    You must carefully follow every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may live and multiply, and enter and possess the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.
  34. Deuteronomy 8:7מְבִֽיאֲךָ֖ · is bringing
    For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;
  35. Deuteronomy 9:1לָבֹא֙ · to go in
    Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.
  36. Deuteronomy 9:4הֱבִיאַ֣נִי · has brought me in
    When the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, “Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.” Rather, the LORD is driving out these nations before you because of their wickedness.
  37. Deuteronomy 9:5בָ֖א · are going in
    It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
  38. Deuteronomy 9:7בֹּֽאֲכֶם֙ · you reached
    Remember this, and never forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have been rebelling against the LORD.
  39. Deuteronomy 9:28לַהֲבִיאָ֕ם · to bring them
    Otherwise, those in the land from which You brought us out will say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land He had promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’
  40. Deuteronomy 10:11וְיָבֹ֙אוּ֙ · that they may enter
    Then the LORD said to me, “Get up. Continue your journey ahead of the people, that they may enter and possess the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.”
  41. Deuteronomy 11:5בֹּאֲכֶ֖ם · you reached
    …what He did for you in the wilderness until you reached this place;
  42. Deuteronomy 11:8וּבָאתֶם֙ · to go in
    You shall therefore keep every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to go in and possess the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess,
  43. Deuteronomy 11:10בָא־ · are entering
    For the land that you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated on foot, like a vegetable garden.
  44. Deuteronomy 11:29יְבִֽיאֲךָ֙ · brings; בָא־ · are entering
    When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
  45. Deuteronomy 11:31לָבֹא֙ · to enter
    For you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you. When you take possession of it and settle in it,
  46. Deuteronomy 12:5וּבָ֥אתָ · you must go
    Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.
  47. Deuteronomy 12:6וַהֲבֵאתֶ֣ם · you are to bring
    To that place you are to bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and heave offerings, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, as well as the firstborn of your herds and flocks.