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בֹּהוּ

bôhûw · H922 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. emptiness, wasteland

    Location that is devoid of any life and without any structure or order; used exclusively in a word pair together with its rhyming synonym תֹּהוּ

    Examples

    Genesis 1:2 And the earth was a formless and desolate emptiness, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

    Isaiah 34:11 But pelican and hedgehog will possess it, And owl and raven will dwell in it; And He will stretch over it the line of desolation And the plumb line of emptiness.

    Jeremiah 4:23 I looked at the earth, and behold, it was a formless and desolate emptiness; And to the heavens, and they had no light.

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Non-Exist002002002006
The word describes emptiness or a formless void, as the earth is called 'a formless and desolate emptiness' before creation in Genesis 1:2 and again in the reversal-of-creation imagery of Jeremiah 4:23, fitting this domain's sense of nothingness or absence of form.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H922. bohu בֹּ֫הוּ noun [masculine] emptiness (on form see Ges§ 84a, 1 b Sta§ 95, 198 a,…
H922. bohu
בֹּ֫הוּ noun [masculine] emptiness (on form see Ges§ 84a, 1 b Sta§ 95, 198 a, on usage compare LagOr. ii. 60 f.) always with תֹּהוּ q. v.; — וָבֹהוּ תֹּהוּ Gen 1:2 of primeval earth; Jer 4:23 of earth under judgment of ׳י; בֹהוּ וְאַבְנֵי קַותֿֿהֹוּ Isa 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

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Non-Exist3 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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