bohu: emptiness Original Word: בֹּ֫הוּ Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: bohu Phonetic Spelling: (bo'-hoo) Short Definition: void
Word Origin from an unused word Definition emptiness NASB Translation emptiness (1), void (2). בֹּ֫הוּ noun [masculine] emptiness (on form see Ges§ 84a, 1 b Sta§ 95, 198 a, on usage compare LagOr. ii. 60 f.) always with תֹּהוּ q. v.; — תֹּהוּ וָבֹהוּ Genesis 1:2 of primeval earth; Jeremiah 4:23 of earth under judgment of ׳י; קַותֿֿהֹוּ וְאַבְנֵי בֹהוּ Isaiah 34:11, the line of wasteness and the stones of emptiness, i.e. plummets, employed, not as usual for building, but for destroying walls; compare Di & see below אבן 6
emptiness, void From an unused root (meaning to be empty); a vacuity, i.e. (superficially) an undistinguishable ruin -- emptiness, void.
בֹֽהוּ׃ בהו׃ וָבֹ֑הוּ וָבֹ֔הוּ ובהו ḇō·hū ḇōhū vaVohu Vohu wā·ḇō·hū wāḇōhū
| |  Strong's Hebrew 922 3 Occurrences
wā·ḇō·hū — 2 Occ. ḇō·hū — 1 Occ.
Genesis 1:2 BIB: הָיְתָ֥ה תֹ֙הוּ֙ וָבֹ֔הוּ וְחֹ֖שֶׁךְ עַל־ NAS: was formless and void, and darkness KJV: without form, and void; and darkness INT: was was formless and void and darkness was overIsaiah 34:11 BIB: תֹ֖הוּ וְאַבְנֵי־ בֹֽהוּ׃ NAS: And the plumb line of emptiness. KJV: and the stones of emptiness. INT: of desolation and the plumb of emptiness Jeremiah 4:23 BIB: וְהִנֵּה־ תֹ֖הוּ וָבֹ֑הוּ וְאֶל־ הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם NAS: [it was] formless and void; And to the heavens, KJV: and, lo, [it was] without form, and void; and the heavens, INT: and behold formless and void and to the heavens 3 Occurrences
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