mavo · entrance, going down

What it means

mavo (מָבוֹא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “entrance, going down”.

Entrance; with "sun," the going down of the sun, the west.

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

1. The place through which one enters a city, a house or a place of work.
2. The time and place where the sun sets, toward the west.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• entrance ×9
• setting ×7
• way into ×2
• as one enters ×1
• as people come ×1
• entry ×1
• sunset ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×2
• Judges×2
• 2 Kings×2
• 1 Chronicles×2
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×4
• Zechariah×1
• Malachi×1

• Deuteronomy 11:30

  Are they not beyond the Jordan, behind the road of the sunset, in the land of the Canaanite who lives in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?

• Joshua 1:4

  From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and as far as the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun, shall be your territory.

• Joshua 23:4

  See, I have allotted to you these nations that remain as an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, to the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun.

• Judges 1:24

  Those watching saw a man coming out of the city, and they said to him, “Show us, please, the way into the city, and we will show loyal love to you.”

• Judges 1:25

  He showed them the way into the city, and they struck the city with the edge of the sword; but the man and all his family they let go.

• 2 Kings 11:16

  They laid hands on her, and she went by the way of the entrance of the horses to the house of the king, and there she was put to death.

• 2 Kings 16:18

  And the covered portico of the Sabbath that they had built in the house, and the outer entrance of the king, he changed in the house of YHWH because of the king of Assyria.

• 1 Chronicles 4:39

  And they went to the entrance of Gedor, as far as the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

• 1 Chronicles 9:19

  And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brothers of his father’s house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent; and their fathers had been over the camp of YHWH, keepers of the entrance.

• 2 Chronicles 23:13

  She looked, and there was the king standing by his pillar at the entrance, and the commanders and the trumpets beside the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing and blowing the trumpets, and the singers with instruments of song leading the praise. Athaliah tore her clothes and said, “Conspiracy! Conspiracy!”

• 2 Chronicles 23:15

  They laid hands on her, and she came to the entrance of the gate of the Horses of the house of the king, and there they put her to death.

• Psalms 50:1

  A psalm of Asaph. El, Elohim, YHWH, has spoken and called the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.

• Psalms 104:19

  He made the moon for the appointed times; the sun knows its setting.

• Psalms 113:3

  From the rising of the sun to its setting praised be the name of YHWH.

• Proverbs 8:3

  beside the gates, at the mouth of the city, at the entrance of the doorways she cries aloud:

• Jeremiah 38:14

  Then King Zedekiah sent and took Jeremiah the prophet to himself at the third entrance that was in the house of YHWH; and the king said to Jeremiah, “I am asking you something; do not hide anything from me.”

• Ezekiel 26:10

  From the abundance of his horses their dust will cover you; from the noise of horseman and wheel and chariot your walls will quake when he enters your gates as one enters a breached city.

• Ezekiel 33:31

  And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they do not do them; for with their mouth they profess love, but after their gain their heart goes.

• Ezekiel 44:5

  And YHWH said to me, “Son of man, set your heart, and see with your eyes, and with your ears hear all that I am speaking to you concerning all the statutes of the house of YHWH and all its instructions; and set your heart on the entrance of the house, with all the exits of the sanctuary.

• Ezekiel 46:19

  And he brought me through the entry that was at the side of the gate to the holy chambers for the priests, which faced north; and look, there was a place at the far end toward the sea.

• Zechariah 8:7

  Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: Look, I am saving my people from the land of the east and from the land of the setting of the sun;

• Malachi 1:11

  For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name is great among the nations; and in every place incense is burned and offered to my name, and a pure offering; for my name is great among the nations, says YHWH Tsevaot.