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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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  • 2 Samuel 17:17
    Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by Enrogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and they went and told king David.
  • 2 Samuel 17:18
    Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man's house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down.
  • 2 Samuel 17:20
    And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
  • 2 Samuel 17:24
    Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.
  • 2 Samuel 17:25
    And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.
  • 2 Samuel 17:27
    And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,
  • 2 Samuel 18:9
    And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.
  • 2 Samuel 18:27
    And the watchman said, Me thinketh the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He is a good man, and cometh with good tidings.
  • 2 Samuel 18:31
    And, behold, Cushi came; and Cushi said, Tidings, my lord the king: for the LORD hath avenged thee this day of all them that rose up against thee.
  • 2 Samuel 19:3
    And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.