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Strong's #922 - בֹּהוּ

Transliteration

bôhûw

Phonetics

bo'-hoo

Root Word (Etymology)

from an unused root (meaning to be empty)

Parts of Speech

masculine noun

TWOT

205a

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

1) emptiness, void, waste

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (3)

Genesis 1

Isaiah 1

Jeremiah 1

NAS (3)

Genesis 1

Isaiah 1

Jeremiah 1

HCS (3)

Genesis 1

Isaiah 1

Jeremiah 1

BSB (4)

Genesis 2

Isaiah 1

Jeremiah 1

ESV (51)

Genesis 1

Exodus 40

Song of Solomon 8

Isaiah 1

Jeremiah 1

WEB (3)

Genesis 1

Isaiah 1

Jeremiah 1

Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions

1028) e b (בה BH) AC: Need CO: Box AB: ?: An empty space needing to be filled. This root is closely related to aband ib. (eng: be - as something that exists filling a void)

A) e b (בה BH) AC: ? CO: Box AB: ?: A void within oneself that desires to be filled.

i^f) e b t (תבה TBH) - Box: An empty container to be filled. KJV (28): ark - Strongs: H8392 (תֵּבָה)

C) e b a (אבה ABH) AC: Consent CO: Box AB: ?: A void within oneself that desires to be filled.

V) e b a (אבה ABH) - Consent: A filling of a void in space or action. To be willing to go somewhere or do something. KJV (54): (vf: Paal) would, will, willing, consent, rest, content - Strongs: H14 (אָבָה)

N^m) e b a (אבה ABH) - Box: An empty container to be filled. KJV (1): swift - Strongs: H16 (אֵבֶה)

J) e f b (בוה BWH) AC: ? CO: Empty AB: ?: An empty space needing to be filled.

r^m) f e f b (בוהו BWHW) - Empty: KJV (3): void, emptiness - Strongs: H922 (בֹּהוּ)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

בֹּ֫הוּ noun [masculine] emptiness (on form see Ges^{§ 84 a}, 1 b Sta^{§ 95,198a, on usage} compare Lag^{Or. ii. 60f.}) always with תֹּהוּ q. v.; — תֹּהוּ וָבֹהוּ Genesis 1:2 of primeval earth; Jeremiah 4:23 of earth under judgment of ׳י; קַותֿֿהֹוּוְאַבְנֵי בֹהוּ Isaiah 34:11, the line of wasteness and the stones of emptiness, i.e. plummets, employed, not as usual for building, but for destroying walls; compare Di & see below אבן 6

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

בֹּהוּ m. (for בֹּהֶז, of a segolate form), emptiness, voidness, and concr. something void and empty. It is three times joined paranomastically with the word תֹּהוּ, Genesis 1:2; Jeremiah 4:23; Isaiah 34:11 [which are all its occurrences].

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List of Word Forms

בֹֽהוּ׃ בהו׃ וָבֹ֑הוּ וָבֹ֔הוּ ובהו ḇō·hū ḇōhū vaVohu Vohu wā·ḇō·hū wāḇōhū