בֹּעַז
Bôʻaz · bo'-az
Boaz, the ancestor of David; also the name of a pillar in front of the temple
Lexicon
Derivation: from an unused root of uncertain meaning;
Boaz, the ancestor of David; also the name of a pillar in front of the temple
- Boaz, the ancestor of David
- also, the name of a pillar in front of the temple
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Boaz.
Letters
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- זZayin7
Picture: a weapon, mattock or sword
- Concrete
- weapon · cutting tool · plough
- Extended
- to cut · to harvest · to sustain by cutting · food
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the house, what is within › to see and know › to cut, to sustain
The house, what is within that works to see and know that works to cut, to sustain.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of בֹּעַז above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
24 occurrences · 24 OT · 0 NT · 14 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- boaz8 · 33%
- and boaz5 · 21%
- was boaz1 · 4%
- belonging unto boaz1 · 4%
- and, behold, boaz1 · 4%
- is boaz1 · 4%
- of boaz1 · 4%
- and now is not boaz1 · 4%
- and when boaz1 · 4%
- of whom boaz1 · 4%
- unto boaz1 · 4%
- so boaz1 · 4%
- thereof boaz1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.