H922 בֹּהוּ (bôhûw) bo'-hoo

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

void

Strong's Definition

a vacuity, i.e. (superficially) an undistinguishable ruin

Derivation: from an unused root (meaning to be empty);

KJV Usage: emptiness, void.

TWOT Reference: 205a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) emptiness, void, waste

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

בֹּהוּ (bo.hu) — void. emptiness, void, waste

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

בֹּהוּ (H0922)

noun m

Non-Exist | ≈ תֹּהוּ

emptiness, wasteland = location that is devoid of any life and without any structure or order; ≈ used exclusively in a word pair together with its rhyming synonym תֹּהוּ

GEN 1:2 · ISA 34:11 · JER 4:23

Enio R. Mueller

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

בֹ֫הוּ n.[m.] emptiness base

Bible Occurrences (3)

1:2

34:11

4:23

Genesis 1:2

Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

Isaiah 34:11

The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over [Edom] a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.

Jeremiah 4:23

I looked at the earth,... and it was formless and void; [I looked] to the heavens, and they [had] no light.