מָבוֹאmâbôwʼ

entrance, a coming in, entering

Pronunciation: maw-bo' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3996

Meanings

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 22 times in the Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 11:30 (These two mountains are west of the Jordan River in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Jordan Valley, near the town of Gilgal, not far from the oaks of Moreh.)
  • Joshua 1:4 from the Negev wilderness in the south to the Lebanon mountains in the north, from the Euphrates River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west, including all the land of the Hittites.’
  • Joshua 23:4 I have allotted to you as your homeland all the land of the nations yet unconquered, as well as the land of those we have already conquered—from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.
  • Judges 1:24 They confronted a man coming out of the town and said to him, “Show us a way into the town, and we will have mercy on you.”
  • Judges 1:25 So he showed them a way in, and they killed everyone in the town except that man and his family.
  • 2 Kings 11:16 So they seized her and led her out to the gate where horses enter the palace grounds, and she was killed there.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).