בּוֹא
bôwʼ · bo
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: abide, apply, attain, [idiom] be, befall, [phrase] besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, [idiom] certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, [idiom] doubtless again, [phrase] eat, [phrase] employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, [phrase] follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, [phrase] have, [idiom] indeed, (in-) vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, [idiom] (well) stricken (in age), [idiom] surely, take (in), way.
Letters
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the house, what is within › to fasten and establish › strength, the leader
The house, what is within that works to fasten and establish of strength, the leader.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of בּוֹא 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
2572 occurrences · 2572 OT · 0 NT · 1097 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- came246 · 24%
- come114 · 11%
- and came85 · 8%
- shall come65 · 6%
- and brought52 · 5%
- cometh43 · 4%
- and they came38 · 4%
- is come36 · 4%
- brought33 · 3%
- was come25 · 2%
- to bring25 · 2%
- and come25 · 2%
- to come22 · 2%
- and bring18 · 2%
- went in18 · 2%
- and he brought17 · 2%
- then came17 · 2%
- and i will bring17 · 2%
- go16 · 2%
- that came16 · 2%
- are come16 · 2%
- and they brought16 · 2%
- went16 · 2%
- bring16 · 2%
- and there came16 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
- Genesis217
- Exodus124
- Leviticus81
- Numbers91
- Deuteronomy106
- Joshua59
- Judges95
- Ruth18
- 1 Samuel171
- 2 Samuel149
- 1 Kings114
- 2 Kings152
- 1 Chronicles62
- 2 Chronicles159
- Ezra17
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.