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בּוֹא (H935)

bôwʼ

bo

a primitive root; to go or come (in a wide variety of applications); 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.

Brown–Driver–Briggs

בּוֹא 2569 vb. come in, come, go in, go
Qal
1 come in
2 come (approach, arrive)
3 go, i.e. walk, associate with
4 go from speaker, but with limit of motion given
Hiph.
1 cause to come in, bring in (conduct, lead, obj. persons and animals)
2 cause to come, bring, bring near, etc. (animate obj.)
Hoph.
a be brought in (of pers. and things)
b be brought
c be introduced, put

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.


2307 occurrences

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  • Genesis 34:20
    And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,
  • Genesis 34:25
    And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.
  • Genesis 34:27
    The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
  • Genesis 35:6
    So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him.
  • Genesis 35:9
    And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him.
  • Genesis 35:16
    And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
  • Genesis 35:27
    And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
  • Genesis 37:2
    These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.
  • Genesis 37:10
    And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
  • Genesis 37:14
    And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.