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.
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:
- ἔρχομαιerchomai“to come/go”33%
- εἰσέρχομαιeiserchomai“to enter”25%
- ἥκωhēkō“to come/be present”9%
- φέρωpherō“to bear/lead”5%
- εἰσάγωeisagō“to bring in”5%
- εἰσπορεύωeisporeuō“to enter”4%
- παραγίνομαιparaginomai“to come”4%
- ἐπάγωepagō“to bring upon”2%
Glossary entries
Usage patterns
Occurrences
2,569 total
- Deuteronomy 12:9בָּאתֶ֖ם · comeFor you have not yet come to the resting place and the inheritance that the LORD your God is giving you.
- Deuteronomy 12:11תָבִ֔יאוּ · you are to bring…then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 12:26וּבָ֔אתָ · and goBut you are to take your holy things and your vow offerings and go to the place the LORD will choose.
- Deuteronomy 12:29בָא־ · are enteringWhen the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations you are entering to dispossess, and you drive them out and live in their land,
- Deuteronomy 13:2וּבָ֤א · comes about…and if the sign or wonder he has spoken to you comes about, but he says, “Let us follow other gods (which you have not known) and let us worship them,”
- Deuteronomy 14:29וּבָ֣א · may comeThen the Levite (because he has no portion or inheritance among you), the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come and eat and be satisfied. And the LORD your God will bless you in all the work of your hands.
- Deuteronomy 16:6כְּב֣וֹא · setsYou must only offer the Passover sacrifice at the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name. Do this in the evening as the sun sets, at the same time you departed from Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 17:9וּבָאתָ֗ · You are to goYou are to go to the Levitical priests and to the judge who presides at that time. Inquire of them, and they will give you a verdict in the case.
- Deuteronomy 17:14תָבֹ֣א · you enterWhen you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,”
- Deuteronomy 18:6יָבֹ֨א · moves; וּבָא֙ · and comesNow if a Levite moves from any town of residence throughout Israel and comes in all earnestness to the place the LORD will choose,
- Deuteronomy 18:9בָּ֣א · enterWhen you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.
- Deuteronomy 18:22יָב֔וֹא · come trueWhen a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD and the message does not come to pass or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.
- Deuteronomy 19:5יָבֹ֨א · he goesIf he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes and kills his neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his life.
- Deuteronomy 20:19לָבֹ֥אWhen you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?
- Deuteronomy 21:12וַהֲבֵאתָ֖הּ · then you shall bring her…then you shall bring her into your house. She must shave her head, trim her nails,
- Deuteronomy 21:13תָּב֤וֹא · you may have relations with…and put aside the clothing of her captivity. After she has lived in your house a full month and mourned her father and mother, you may have relations with her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
- Deuteronomy 22:13וּבָ֥א · has relations withSuppose a man marries a woman, has relations with her, and comes to hate her,
- Deuteronomy 23:1יָבֹ֧א · may enterNo man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 23:2יָבֹ֥א · may enter; יָ֥בֹאNo one of illegitimate birth may enter the assembly of the LORD, nor may any of his descendants, even to the tenth generation.
- Deuteronomy 23:3יָבֹ֧א · may enter; יָבֹ֥אNo Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even to the tenth generation.
- Deuteronomy 23:8יָבֹ֥א · may enterThe third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 23:10יָבֹ֖א · [and] stayIf any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp and stay outside.
- Deuteronomy 23:11וּכְבֹ֣א · sets; יָבֹ֖א · he may returnWhen evening approaches, he must wash with water, and when the sun sets he may return to the camp.
- Deuteronomy 23:18תָבִיא֩ · bringYou must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.
- Deuteronomy 23:20בָא־ · are enteringYou may charge a foreigner interest, but not your brother, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything to which you put your hand in the land that you are entering to possess.
- Deuteronomy 23:24תָבֹא֙ · you enterWhen you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, but you must not put any in your basket.
- Deuteronomy 23:25תָבֹא֙ · you enterWhen you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.
- Deuteronomy 24:10תָבֹ֥א · enterWhen you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.
- Deuteronomy 24:13כְּבֹ֣א · by sunset…be sure to return it to him by sunset, so that he may sleep in his own cloak and bless you, and this will be credited to you as righteousness before the LORD your God.
- Deuteronomy 24:15תָב֧וֹאYou are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
- Deuteronomy 25:5יָבֹ֣אWhen brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law for her.
- Deuteronomy 26:1תָב֣וֹא · you enterWhen you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you take possession of it and settle in it,
- Deuteronomy 26:2תָּבִ֧יא…you are to take some of the firstfruits of all your produce from the soil of the land that the LORD your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name,
- Deuteronomy 26:3וּבָאתָ֙; בָ֙אתִי֙ · I have entered…to the priest who is serving at that time, and say to him, “I declare today to the LORD your God that I have entered the land that the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.”
- Deuteronomy 26:9וַיְבִאֵ֖נוּ · And He brought usAnd He brought us to this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
- Deuteronomy 26:10הֵבֵ֙אתִי֙ · I have broughtAnd now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land that You, O LORD, have given me.” Then you are to place the basket before the LORD your God and bow down before Him.
- Deuteronomy 27:3תָּבֹ֨א · enterWrite on them all the words of this law when you have crossed over to enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
- Deuteronomy 28:2וּבָ֧אוּ · will comeAnd all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, if you will obey the voice of the LORD your God:
- Deuteronomy 28:6בְּבֹאֶ֑ךָ · when you come inYou will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
- Deuteronomy 28:15וּבָ֧אוּ · will comeIf, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
- Deuteronomy 28:19בְּבֹאֶ֑ךָ · when you come inYou will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.
- Deuteronomy 28:21בָא־ · are enteringThe LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess.
- Deuteronomy 28:45וּבָ֨אוּ · will comeAll these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the LORD your God and keep the commandments and statutes He gave you.
- Deuteronomy 28:63בָא־ · are enteringJust as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and multiply, so also it will please Him to annihilate you and destroy you. And you will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.
- Deuteronomy 29:7וַתָּבֹ֖אוּ · When you reachedWhen you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us in battle, but we defeated them.