Strong's Concordance bohu: emptiness Original Word: בֹּ֫הוּPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: bohu Phonetic Spelling: (bo'-hoo) Short Definition: void Brown-Driver-Briggs 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 Strong's Exhaustive Concordance emptiness, void From an unused root (meaning to be empty); a vacuity, i.e. (superficially) an undistinguishable ruin -- emptiness, void. Forms and Transliterations בֹֽהוּ׃ בהו׃ וָבֹ֑הוּ וָבֹ֔הוּ ובהו ḇō·hū ḇōhū vaVohu Vohu wā·ḇō·hū wāḇōhūLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Hebrew 9223 Occurrences wā·ḇō·hū — 2 Occ. ḇō·hū — 1 Occ. 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 Jeremiah 4:23 |