Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #922 - בֹּהוּ bohu (emptiness)

Original Word:	בֹּהוּ
Transliteration:	bohu
Definition:	emptiness
Part of Speech:	Noun Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:	(bo'-hoo)
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

emptiness, void

From an unused root (meaning to be empty); a vacuity, i.e. (superficially) an undistinguishable ruin -- emptiness, void.

Englishman's Concordance

1) emptiness, void, waste
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from an unused root (meaning to be empty)
Same Word by TWOT Number: 205a

Brown-Driver-Briggs

בֹּ֫הוּnoun [masculine]emptiness (on form see Ges^{§ 84a}, 1 b Sta^{§ 95, 198 a, on usage} compare Lag^{Or. ii. 60 f.}) always with תֹּהוּ q. v.; — תֹּהוּ וָבֹהוּGenesis 1:2 of primeval earth; Jeremiah 4:23 of earth under judgment of ׳י; קַותֿֿהֹוּוְאַבְנֵי בֹהוּIsaiah 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 אבן6

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 922. בֹּ֫הוּ (bohu) — 3 Occurrences

Genesis 1:2
HEB: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 over

Isaiah 34:11
HEB: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
HEB: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

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