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
- 2 Kings 10:21וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙ · They enteredThen Jehu sent word throughout Israel, and all the servants of Baal came; there was not a man who failed to show. They entered the temple of Baal, and it was filled from end to end.
- 2 Kings 10:23וַיָּבֹ֥א · enteredNext, Jehu and Jehonadab son of Rechab entered the temple of Baal, and Jehu said to the servants of Baal, “Look around to see that there are no servants of the LORD here among you—only servants of Baal.”
- 2 Kings 10:24וַיָּבֹ֕אוּ · And they went in; מֵבִ֣יא · am deliveringAnd they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside and warned them, “If anyone allows one of the men I am delivering into your hands to escape, he will forfeit his life for theirs.”
- 2 Kings 10:25בֹּ֤אוּ · Go inWhen he had finished making the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guards and officers, “Go in and kill them. Do not let anyone out.” So the guards and officers put them to the sword, threw the bodies out, and went into the inner room of the temple of Baal.
- 2 Kings 11:4וַיָּבֵ֥א · and had them broughtThen in the seventh year, Jehoiada sent for the commanders of hundreds, the Carites, and the guards, and had them brought into the house of the LORD. There he made a covenant with them and put them under oath. He showed them the king’s son
- 2 Kings 11:5בָּאֵ֣י · who come on duty…and commanded them, “This is what you are to do: A third of you who come on duty on the Sabbath shall guard the royal palace,
- 2 Kings 11:8וְהַבָּ֥א · who approaches; וּבְבֹאֽוֹ׃You must surround the king with weapons in hand, and anyone who approaches the ranks must be put to death. You must stay close to the king wherever he goes.”
- 2 Kings 11:9בָּאֵ֣י · those coming on duty; וַיָּבֹ֖אוּ · and cameSo the commanders of hundreds did everything that Jehoiada the priest had ordered. Each of them took his men—those coming on duty on the Sabbath and those going off duty—and came to Jehoiada the priest.
- 2 Kings 11:13וַתָּבֹ֥א · she went outWhen Athaliah heard the noise from the guards and the people, she went out to the people in the house of the LORD.
- 2 Kings 11:15וְהַבָּ֥א · anyone who followsAnd Jehoiada the priest ordered the commanders of hundreds in charge of the army, “Bring her out between the ranks, and put to the sword anyone who follows her.” For the priest had said, “She must not be put to death in the house of the LORD.”
- 2 Kings 11:16וַתָּב֛וֹא · as she reachedSo they seized Athaliah as she reached the horses’ entrance to the palace grounds, and there she was put to death.
- 2 Kings 11:18וַיָּבֹ֣אוּ · wentSo all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols to pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars. And Jehoiada the priest posted guards for the house of the LORD.
- 2 Kings 11:19וַיָּב֛וֹאוּ · and enteredHe took with him the commanders of hundreds, the Carites, the guards, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD and entered the royal palace by way of the Gate of the Guards. Then Joash took his seat on the royal throne,
- 2 Kings 12:4יוּבָ֤א · brought; לְהָבִ֖יא · broughtThen Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money brought as sacred gifts into the house of the LORD—the census money, the money from vows, and the money brought voluntarily into the house of the LORD.
- 2 Kings 12:9בְּבֽוֹא־ · enters; הַמּוּבָ֥א · broughtThen Jehoiada the priest took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one enters the house of the LORD. There the priests who guarded the threshold put all the money brought into the house of the LORD.
- 2 Kings 12:13הַמּוּבָ֥א · broughtHowever, the money brought into the house of the LORD was not used for making silver basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, trumpets, or any articles of gold or silver for the house of the LORD.
- 2 Kings 12:16יוּבָ֖א · broughtThe money from the guilt offerings and sin offerings was not brought into the house of the LORD; it belonged to the priests.
- 2 Kings 13:20יָבֹ֥אוּ · used to come; בָּ֥א · every springAnd Elisha died and was buried. Now the Moabite raiders used to come into the land every spring.
- 2 Kings 14:13וַיָּבֹאוּ · Then Jehoash wentThere at Beth-shemesh, Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Ahaziah. Then Jehoash went to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section of four hundred cubits.
- 2 Kings 14:25מִלְּב֥וֹאThis Jeroboam restored the boundary of Israel from Lebo-hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word that the LORD, the God of Israel, had spoken through His servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath-hepher.
- 2 Kings 15:14וַיָּבֹא֙Then Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah to Samaria, struck down and killed Shallum son of Jabesh, and reigned in his place.
- 2 Kings 15:19בָּ֣א · invadedThen Pul king of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver in order to gain his support and strengthen his own grip on the kingdom.
- 2 Kings 15:29בָּא֮ · cameIn the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and he took the people as captives to Assyria.
- 2 Kings 16:6בָּ֣אוּ · and sentAt that time Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath for Aram, drove out the men of Judah, and sent the Edomites into Elath, where they live to this day.
- 2 Kings 16:11בּ֥וֹא · returnedAnd Uriah the priest built the altar according to all the instructions King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, and he completed it before King Ahaz returned.
- 2 Kings 16:12וַיָּבֹ֤א · came backWhen the king came back from Damascus and saw the altar, he approached it and presented offerings on it.
- 2 Kings 17:24וַיָּבֵ֣א · broughtThen the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in the towns of Samaria to replace the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its towns.
- 2 Kings 17:28וַיָּבֹ֞א · cameThus one of the priests they had carried away came and lived in Bethel, and he began to teach them how they should worship the LORD.
- 2 Kings 18:17וַיָּבֹ֣אוּ; וַיָּבֹ֗אוּNevertheless, the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh, along with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They advanced up to Jerusalem and stationed themselves by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.
- 2 Kings 18:21וּבָ֥אLook now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
- 2 Kings 18:32בֹּאִי֩ · I come…until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey—so that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, for he misleads you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’
- 2 Kings 18:37וַיָּבֹ֣א · cameThen Hilkiah’s son Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph’s son Joah the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they relayed to him the words of the Rabshakeh.
- 2 Kings 19:1וַיָּבֹ֖א · and enteredOn hearing this report, King Hezekiah tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and entered the house of the LORD.
- 2 Kings 19:3בָ֤אוּ · have come…to tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.
- 2 Kings 19:5וַיָּבֹ֗אוּ · wentSo the servants of King Hezekiah went to Isaiah,
- 2 Kings 19:23וְאָב֙וֹאָה֙ · I have reachedThrough your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest outposts, the densest of its forests.
- 2 Kings 19:25הֲבֵיאתִ֗יהָ · brought it to passHave you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.
- 2 Kings 19:27וּבֹאֲךָ֖ · and coming inBut I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.
- 2 Kings 19:28בָּ֥אתָ · you cameBecause your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’
- 2 Kings 19:32יָבֹא֙ · enterSo this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow into it. He will not come before it with a shield or build up a siege ramp against it.
- 2 Kings 19:33יָבֹ֖א · he came; יָבֹ֖אHe will go back the way he came, and he will not enter this city, declares the LORD.
- 2 Kings 20:1וַיָּבֹ֣א · cameIn those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”