בֹּהוּ
bohu · void
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H922 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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bohu (בֹּהוּ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “void”.
Empty, void, with nothing and no one. It appears with the previous word ("formless and void") to describe the earth before God set it in order and filled it with life.
How to say it
bo·hu
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
- With nothing and no one, deserted.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- emptiness ×1
- empty ×1
- void ×1
Where it appears
- Genesis 1:2
Now the earth was formless and empty, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of Elohim was hovering over the surface of the waters.
- Isaiah 34:11
And the pelican and the hedgehog will possess it, and the ibis and the raven will dwell in it; and he will stretch over it the line of formlessness and the stones of emptiness.
- Jeremiah 4:23
I looked at the earth, and look, it was formless and void; and to the heavens, and their light was not there.