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Genesis 27:18
“And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son?” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
בּוֹאbôwʼ · bo
H935 · Hebrew
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
- וַ — conjunction
- יָּבֹ֥א — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, 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.