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HebrewH0922Noun (Masculine)

בֹּהוּ

bo.hu

3Occurrences
H0922Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a vacuity, i.e. (superficially) an undistinguishable ruin

from an unused root (meaning to be empty);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
emptiness, void, waste

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

H:N-M

Full Description

H:N-M

Occurrences

בֹּהוּ appears 3 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Genesis
1
Isaiah
1
Jeremiah
1

Key Passages

Genesis 1:2BSB

Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

Isaiah 34:11BSB

The desert owl and screech owl will possess it,and the great owl and raven will dwell in it.The LORD will stretch out over Edoma measuring line of chaosand a plumb line of destruction.

Jeremiah 4:23BSB

I looked at the earth,and it was formless and void;I looked to the heavens,and they had no light.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.