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מָבוֹא

ma.vo

entrance

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Strong’s H3996Noun, masculine22 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

the entrance of8

the setting of4

setting4

entrance3

an entrance1

the entering of1

the coming of1

In the text

Joshua 1:4מְבוֹא
Your territory shall extend from the wilderness and Lebanon to the great River Euphrates—all the land of the Hittites—and west as far as the Great Sea.
Judges 1:24מְבוֹא
and when the spies saw a man coming out of the city, they said to him, “Please show us how to get into the city, and we will treat you kindly.”
2 Kings 11:16מְבוֹא
So they seized Athaliah as she reached the horses’ entrance to the palace grounds, and there she was put to death.
1 Chronicles 4:39לִמְבוֹא
and they journeyed to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, in search of pasture for their flocks.
Psalm 50:1מְבֹאוֹ
The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from where the sun rises to where it sets.
Ezekiel 44:5לִמְבוֹא
The LORD said to me: “Son of man, pay attention; look carefully with your eyes and listen closely with your ears to everything I tell you concerning all the statutes and laws of the house of the LORD. Take careful note of the entrance to the temple, along with all the exits of the sanctuary.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מָבוֹא n.m. entrance, a coming in, entering

1. entrance, i.e. place or way of entrance

2. entering, act of entrance

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.