בּוֹא bôwʼ

Meaning

to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)

In the King James Version: 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.

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Job 23:3 If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.
• Job 27:9 Will God hear his cry when distress comes upon him?
• Job 28:20 From where, then, does wisdom come, and where does understanding dwell?
• Job 29:13 The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.
• Job 30:26 But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.
• Job 34:28 They caused the cry of the poor to come before Him, and He heard the outcry of the afflicted.
• Job 37:8 The wild animals enter their lairs; they settle down in their dens.
• Job 37:9 The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.
• Job 38:11 and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?
• Job 38:16 Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?
• Job 38:22 Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,
• Job 41:13 Who can strip off his outer coat? Who can approach him with a bridle?
• Job 41:16 One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.
• Job 42:11 All his brothers and sisters and prior acquaintances came and dined with him in his house. They consoled him and comforted him over all the adversity that the LORD had brought upon him. And each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.
• Psalms 5:7 But I will enter Your house by the abundance of Your loving devotion; in reverence I will bow down toward Your holy temple.
• Psalms 18:6 In my distress I called upon the LORD; I cried to my God for help. From His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for His help reached His ears.
• Psalms 22:31 They will come and proclaim His righteousness to a people yet unborn—all that He has done.
• Psalms 24:7 Lift up your heads, O gates! Be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of Glory may enter!
• Psalms 24:9 Lift up your heads, O gates! Be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of Glory may enter!
• Psalms 26:4 I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.
• Psalms 35:8 May ruin befall them by surprise; may the net they hid ensnare them; may they fall into the hazard they created.
• Psalms 36:11 Let not the foot of the proud come against me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.
• Psalms 37:13 but the Lord laughs, seeing that their day is coming.
• Psalms 37:15 But their swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.
• Psalms 40:7 Then I said, “Here I am, I have come—it is written about me in the scroll:
• Psalms 41:6 My visitor speaks falsehood; he gathers slander in his heart; he goes out and spreads it abroad.
• Psalms 42:2 My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?
• Psalms 43:3 Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain and to the place where You dwell.
• Psalms 43:4 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my greatest joy. I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God.
• Psalms 44:17 All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant.
• Psalms 45:14 In colorful garments she is led to the king; her virgin companions are brought before you.
• Psalms 45:15 They are led in with joy and gladness; they enter the palace of the king.
• Psalms 49:19 he will join the generation of his fathers, who will never see the light of day.
• Psalms 50:3 Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.
• Psalms 55:5 Fear and trembling grip me, and horror has overwhelmed me.
• Psalms 63:9 But those who seek my life to destroy it will go into the depths of the earth.
• Psalms 65:2 O You who listen to prayer, all people will come to You.
• Psalms 66:11 You led us into the net; You laid burdens on our backs.
• Psalms 66:12 You let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and water, but You brought us into abundance.
• Psalms 66:13 I will enter Your house with burnt offerings; I will fulfill my vows to You—
• Psalms 69:1 For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Lilies.” Of David. Save me, O God, for the waters are up to my neck.
• Psalms 69:2 I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me.
• Psalms 69:27 Add iniquity to their iniquity; let them not share in Your righteousness.
• Psalms 71:3 Be my rock of refuge, where I can always go. Give the command to save me, for You are my rock and my fortress.
• Psalms 71:16 I will come in the strength of the Lord GOD; I will proclaim Your righteousness—Yours alone.
• Psalms 71:18 Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.
• Psalms 73:17 until I entered God’s sanctuary; then I discerned their end.
• Psalms 74:5 like men wielding axes in a thicket of trees
• Psalms 78:29 So they ate and were well filled, for He gave them what they craved.
• Psalms 78:54 He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand had acquired.
• Psalms 78:71 from tending the ewes He brought him to be shepherd of His people Jacob, of Israel His inheritance.
• Psalms 79:1 A Psalm of Asaph. The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
• Psalms 79:11 May the groans of the captives reach You; by the strength of Your arm preserve those condemned to death.
• Psalms 86:9 All the nations You have made will come and bow before You, O Lord, and they will glorify Your name.
• Psalms 88:2 May my prayer come before You; incline Your ear to my cry.
• Psalms 90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.
• Psalms 95:6 O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.
• Psalms 95:11 So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”
• Psalms 96:8 Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His name; bring an offering and enter His courts.
• Psalms 96:13 before the LORD, for He is coming—He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in His faithfulness.