Original Language Studio
Esther 9:25
“But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H935 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- abide, apply, attain, [idiom] be, befall, [phrase] besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, [idiom] certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, [idiom] doubtless again, [phrase] eat, [phrase] employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, [phrase] follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, [phrase] have, [idiom] indeed, (in-) vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, [idiom] (well) stricken (in age), [idiom] surely, take (in), way.
- Grammar
- וּ — conjunction
- בְ — preposition
- בֹאָ — verb Qal, infinitive construct
- הּ֮ — suffix (pronominal), 3rd person, feminine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 2,592 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 2:19Genesis 2:22Genesis 4:3Genesis 4:4Genesis 6:4
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read בּוֹא here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.