בּוֹא

bo · come, go in, bring

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H935 · appears 2571 times in the Bible

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What it means

bo (בּוֹא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “come, go in, bring”.

Come, arrive, go in, enter. In the causative form, "bring" or "carry in". "Go in to" a woman is to have marital relations with her.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

To go into a place.
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
To bring something or someone.
To go in to a woman as husband.
For the sun to set.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Come, arrive, go in. BDB: to go or come, with a great many applications. In the causative form it means “cause to come”: bring, carry in.

To go into a place Genesis 7:1 Genesis 7:13 Psalms 24:7
To come or arrive somewhere Genesis 19:1 Genesis 45:16
The sun that “goes in”: to set Genesis 15:12 Genesis 28:11
To bring or carry (causative form) Genesis 2:19
To go in to a woman, in sexual union Genesis 16:2 Genesis 29:23

How we translate it

“Came” 646 times, “come” 585, “brought” 263, “bring” 230, “go” 159, “went” 123, “enter” 88. English divides among “come”, “go”, “enter” and “bring” what Hebrew says with one verb, according to the direction of the movement and the form of the verb. With the sun, “set” or “go down”. For sexual union (בּוֹא אֶל) this edition's glossary sets “went in to”.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

came ×646
come ×585
brought ×263
bring ×230
go ×159
went ×123
coming ×119
comes ×115
enter ×88
entered ×32
others ×211

Related words

Words that come from it

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

Genesis 2:19
And YHWH Elohim formed from the ground every animal of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called it, as a living being, that was its name.
Genesis 2:22
And YHWH Elohim built the side that he had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man.
Genesis 4:3
And it happened at the end of some days that Cain brought from the fruit of the ground an offering to YHWH.
Genesis 4:4
And Abel also brought, he too, from the firstborn of his flock and from their fat. And YHWH regarded Abel and his offering,
Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of Elohim went in to the daughters of human beings and they bore children to them; they were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
Genesis 6:13
And Elohim said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and look, I am going to destroy them with the earth.
Genesis 6:17
And I, look, I am bringing the flood of waters on the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the spirit of life, from under the heavens; everything that is on the earth will perish.
Genesis 6:18
But I will establish my covenant with you; and you will come into the ark, you and your sons and your wife and the wives of your sons with you.
Genesis 6:19
And of every living thing, of all flesh, two of every kind you shall bring into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.
Genesis 6:20
Of the birds according to their kind, and of the livestock according to their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind, two of every kind will come to you to be kept alive.
Genesis 7:1
And YHWH said to Noah, “Come, you and all your household, into the ark, for you I have seen to be righteous before me in this generation.
Genesis 7:7
And Noah went into the ark, and his sons and his wife and the wives of his sons with him, because of the waters of the flood.
Genesis 7:9
two and two they came to Noah into the ark, male and female, as Elohim had commanded Noah.
Genesis 7:13
On that very day Noah went into the ark, and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and the wife of Noah and the three wives of his sons with them,
Genesis 7:15
And they came to Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the spirit of life.
Genesis 7:16
And those that came, male and female of all flesh, came as Elohim had commanded him; and YHWH shut the door behind him.
Genesis 8:9
But the dove did not find a resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were on the face of all the earth. And he reached out his hand and took her and brought her to himself into the ark.
Genesis 8:11
And the dove came to him at evening time, and look, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had decreased from the earth.
Genesis 10:19
And the territory of the Canaanites was from Sidon, in the direction of Gerar, as far as Gaza; in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
Genesis 10:30
And their dwelling place was from Mesha in the direction of Sephar, the hill country of the east.
Genesis 11:31
Terah took Abram his son, Lot son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came as far as Haran and settled there.
Genesis 12:5
Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot the son of his brother, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the persons that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. And they came to the land of Canaan.
Genesis 12:11
When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “Look, I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance.
Genesis 12:14
When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful.
Genesis 13:10
Lot lifted his eyes and saw the whole plain of the Jordan, that all of it was well-watered (before YHWH destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of YHWH, like the land of Egypt, as you go toward Zoar.
Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his tent and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and he built there an altar to YHWH.
Genesis 14:5
In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
Genesis 14:7
Then they turned back and came to En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh) and defeated the whole territory of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar.
Genesis 14:13
One who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner; and they had a covenant with Abram.
Genesis 15:12
As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram; and look, a terror, a great darkness, was falling on him.
Genesis 15:15
As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; you will be buried at a good old age.
Genesis 15:17
When the sun had gone down and it was dark, look, a smoking oven and a torch of fire that passed between these pieces.
Genesis 16:2
Sarai said to Abram, “Look, YHWH has kept me from bearing children. Go in please to my slave woman; perhaps I will have children through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
Genesis 16:4
He went in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress became of little account in her eyes.
Genesis 16:8
He said, “Hagar, slave woman of Sarai, where from have you come, and where are you going?” She said, “From the presence of Sarai my mistress I am fleeing.”
Genesis 18:11
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in days; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
Genesis 18:19
For I have known him, so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of YHWH by doing righteousness and justice, so that YHWH may bring upon Abraham what he has spoken about him.”
Genesis 18:21
Let me go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to its outcry that has come to me; and if not, I will know.”
Genesis 19:1
The two messengers came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.
Genesis 19:3
But he urged them strongly, so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

And 2531 more times.