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Strong's #3996 - מָבוֹא
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- entrance, a coming in, entering
- sunset
- sunset
- sunset, west
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1024) ab (בא BA) AC: Fill CO: Void AB: ?: The filling of an empty space. This root is closely related to eband ib.
A) ab (בא BA) AC: Enter CO: Entrance AB: ?: To fill a space by entering it.
Nf1) eab (באה BAH) - Entrance: KJV (1): entry - Strongs: H872 (בִּאָה)
J) afb (בוא BWA) AC: Fill CO: Entrance AB: ?: To come or go into a space is to fill it. A void within oneself that desires to be filled.
V) afb (בוא BWA) - Come: To fill a void by entering it. This can be understood as to come or to go. [A generic verb with a wide application meaning to come or go as a filling of a void] KJV (2577): (vf: Paal, Hiphil, Hophal) come, enter, go - Strongs: H935 (בּוֹא)
am) afbm (מבוא MBWA) - I. Entrance:A place of entering. II. West:The place where the sun enters the underworld. [df: awbwm] KJV (24): going down, entry, come, entrance, enter, in, west - Strongs: H3996 (מָבוֹא)
if1 ) eafbt (תבואה TBWAH) - Filling: An increase of produce, usually of fruit. KJV (42): increase, fruit, revenue, gain - Strongs: H8393 (תְּבוּאָה)
kf1) eafbm (מבואה MBWAH) - Entrance: A place of entering. KJV (1): entry - Strongs: H3997 (מְבוֹאָה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 entrance, i.e. place or way of entrance, into a city Judges 1:24,25; 1 Chronicles 4:39; Proverbs 8:3 (מְּתָחִים׳מ); into buildings 2 Kings 11:16; 2 Kings 16:18; 1 Chronicles 9:19 (שֹׁמְרֵיהַמָּבוֺא), 2 Chronicles 23:13,15; Jeremiah 38:14; Ezekiel 42:9; Ezekiel 46:19; see also מְבוֺאֹת יָם entrance of (the) sea, gate of the sea, of situation of Tyre Ezekiel 27:3.
2 entering, act of entrance, by violence, in storm of city Ezekiel 26:10; coming in or together, making a crowd, כִּמְבוֺא עָ֑ם Ezekiel 33:31 simile of eagerness to hear Yahweh's word; in phrase אֶתמֿוֺצָאֲךָ וְאֶתמֿבואך 2 Samuel 3:25 thy going out and thy coming in, mode of entering temple, or the people who enter Ezekiel 44:5; particularly of sunset מְבוֺא הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ Psalm 104:19; = west Deuteronomy 11:30; Joshua 1:4; Joshua 23:4 הַיָּם הַגָּדוֺל מְבוֺאהַשֶּׁמֶשׁ = Mediterranean, Zechariah 8:7 אֶרֶץ מְבוֺא הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ ("" אֶרֶץ מִזְרָח), Malachi 1:11; Psalm 50:1; Psalm 113:3 sunset = west, opposed to sunrise = east; in phrase from east to west, i.e. over the whole earth, everywhere on earth.
מָבוֹא m. (root בוֹא) pl. ־ִים and ־וֹת.
(1) an entering, Ezekiel 26:10.
(2) entrance, approach. Judges 1:24, 25 Judges 1:25, מְבוֹא הָעִיר “the entrance of the city,” i.e. the gate. Proverbs 8:3, מְבוֹא פְתָתִים “at the entrance of the gate.”
(3) מְבאֹ הַשֶׁמֶשׁ the entrance (i.e. place of setting) of the sun, the west, Deuteronomy 11:30; Psalms 50:1 in acc. towards the west, Joshua 1:4.