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
- Isaiah 7:17בָ֔אוּThe LORD will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since the day Ephraim separated from Judah—He will bring the king of Assyria.”
- Isaiah 7:19וּבָ֨אוּ · comeAnd they will all come and settle in the steep ravines and clefts of the rocks, in all the thornbushes and watering holes.
- Isaiah 7:24יָ֣בוֹא · Men will goMen will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.
- Isaiah 7:25תָב֣וֹא · traverseFor fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.
- Isaiah 10:3תָּב֑וֹא · comesWhat will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
- Isaiah 10:28בָּ֥א · [Assyria] has enteredAssyria has entered Aiath and passed through Migron, storing their supplies at Michmash.
- Isaiah 13:2וְיָבֹ֖אוּ · that they may enterRaise a banner on a barren hilltop; call aloud to them. Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.
- Isaiah 13:5בָּאִ֛ים · They are comingThey are coming from faraway lands, from the ends of the heavens—the LORD and the weapons of His wrath—to destroy the whole country.
- Isaiah 13:6יָבֽוֹא׃ · it will comeWail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
- Isaiah 13:9בָּ֔א · is comingBehold, the Day of the LORD is coming—cruel, with fury and burning anger—to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.
- Isaiah 13:22לָבוֹא֙Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her luxurious palaces. Babylon’s time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.
- Isaiah 14:2וֶהֱבִיא֣וּם · and bringThe nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
- Isaiah 14:9בּוֹאֶ֑ךָ · upon your arrivalSheol beneath is eager to meet you upon your arrival. It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you—all the rulers of the earth. It makes all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones.
- Isaiah 14:31בָּ֔א · comesWail, O gate! Cry out, O city! Melt away, all you Philistines! For a cloud of smoke comes from the north, and there are no stragglers in its ranks.
- Isaiah 16:3הָבִיאוּ · Give us“Give us counsel; render a decision. Shelter us at noonday with shade as dark as night. Hide the refugees; do not betray the one who flees.
- Isaiah 16:12וּבָ֧א · and entersWhen Moab appears on the high place, when he wearies himself and enters his sanctuary to pray, it will do him no good.
- Isaiah 19:1וּבָ֣א · He is comingThis is the burden against Egypt: Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud; He is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble before Him, and the hearts of the Egyptians will melt within them.
- Isaiah 19:23וּבָֽא־ · will goIn that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will go to Egypt, and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together.
- Isaiah 20:1בֹּ֤א · cameBefore the year that the chief commander, sent by Sargon king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and attacked and captured it,
- Isaiah 21:1בָּ֔א · [an invader] comesThis is the burden against the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev, an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror.
- Isaiah 21:9בָא֙ · comeLook, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”
- Isaiah 22:15בֹּא֙ · [say]This is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says: “Go, say to Shebna, the steward in charge of the palace:
- Isaiah 23:1מִבּ֔וֹא · [or] harborThis is the burden against Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor. Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus.
- Isaiah 24:10מִבּֽוֹא׃ · to entryThe city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.
- Isaiah 26:2וְיָבֹ֥א · may enterOpen the gates so a righteous nation may enter—one that remains faithful.
- Isaiah 26:20בֹּ֣א · enterGo, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.
- Isaiah 27:6הַבָּאִים֙ · In the days to comeIn the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.
- Isaiah 27:11בָּא֖וֹת · comeWhen its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.
- Isaiah 27:13וּבָ֗אוּ · will come forthAnd in that day a great ram’s horn will sound, and those who were perishing in Assyria will come forth with those who were exiles in Egypt. And they will worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 28:15יְבוֹאֵ֔נוּ · touch usFor you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”
- Isaiah 30:8בּ֣וֹא · GoGo now, write it on a tablet in their presence and inscribe it on a scroll; it will be for the days to come, a witness forever and ever.
- Isaiah 30:13יָב֥וֹא · will come…this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly—in an instant!
- Isaiah 30:27בָּ֣א · comesBehold, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, with burning anger and dense smoke. His lips are full of fury, and His tongue is like a consuming fire.
- Isaiah 30:29לָב֥וֹא · going upYou will sing as on the night of a holy festival, and your heart will rejoice like one who walks to the music of a flute, going up to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.
- Isaiah 31:2וַיָּ֣בֵא · and bringsYet He too is wise and brings disaster; He does not call back His words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers.
- Isaiah 32:10יָבֽוֹא׃ · arriveIn a little more than a year you will tremble, O secure ones. For the grape harvest will fail and the fruit harvest will not arrive.
- Isaiah 35:4יָב֔וֹא · will come; יָב֖וֹא · will comeSay to those with anxious hearts: “Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance. With divine retribution He will come to save you.”
- Isaiah 35:10וּבָ֤אוּ · and enterSo the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.
- Isaiah 36:6וּבָ֥אLook 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.
- Isaiah 36:17בֹּאִ֕י · 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.
- Isaiah 36:22וַיָּבֹ֣א · 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.
- Isaiah 37:1וַיָּבֹ֖א · and enteredOn hearing this report, King Hezekiah tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and entered the house of the LORD.
- Isaiah 37:3בָ֤אוּ · 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.
- Isaiah 37:5וַיָּבֹ֗אוּ · wentSo the servants of King Hezekiah went to Isaiah,
- Isaiah 37:24וְאָבוֹא֙ · 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 heights, the densest of its forests.
- Isaiah 37:26הֲבֵאתִ֔יהָ · 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.
- Isaiah 37:28וּבוֹאֲךָ֖ · and coming inBut I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.
- Isaiah 37:29בָּ֥אתָ · 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.’
- Isaiah 37:33יָבוֹא֙ · 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.