מָבוֹא mavo

Hebrew word for “entrance” · Strong’s H3996 · used 22 times in 22 verses

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Meaning

1) entrance, a coming in, entering; 2) sunset; 2a) sunset; 2b) sunset, west; Also means: me.vo.ah (מְבוֹאָה "entry" H3997)

How it is translated

Glosses given for mavo in context, with how often each is used:

• entrance 12
• setting 8
• like the enterings 1
• like the coming 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Judges 1 (2), 2 Chronicles 23 (2), Deuteronomy 11 (1), Joshua 1 (1), Joshua 23 (1), 2 Kings 11 (1), 2 Kings 16 (1), 1 Chronicles 4 (1), 1 Chronicles 9 (1), Psalms 50 (1)

Forms

• מבוא 11
• מבואו 3
• למבוא 2
• במבוא 2
• המבוא 1
• מבאו 1
• כמבואי 1
• כמבוא 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with mavo more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• שֶׁמֶשׁ shemesh “sun” 8
• מִזְרָח mizrach “east” 5
• שַׁעַר shaar “gate” 4
• סוּס sus “horse” 3
• עַד ad “till” 5
• רָאָה raah “to see” 5
• יָם yam “sea” 3
• פֶּה peh “lip” 3
• גָּדוֹל gadol “great” 3
• שׂוּם sum “to set” 3
• שָׁם sham “there” 3
• הָלַל halal “to boast” 2

Key verses

The verses using mavo that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Joshua 1:4 — From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down…
• 1 Chronicles 9:19 — And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites, were over the work of the…
• 2 Chronicles 23:13 — And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land…
• Psalms 50:1 — [A Psalm of Asaph.] The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
• Psalms 104:19 — He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.
• Psalms 113:3 — From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD’s name is to be praised.
• Jeremiah 38:14 — Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that is in the house of the LORD: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I…
• Ezekiel 26:10 — By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the…
• Ezekiel 33:31 — And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth…
• Ezekiel 44:5 — And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances…
• Zechariah 8:7 — Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;
• Malachi 1:11 — For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.