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Jeremiah 36:20
“And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king.” (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
- יָּבֹ֤אוּ — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural
- 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.