Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H922: בֹּהוּ

bôhûw · pronounced bo'-hoo · “void”

Definition

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

KJV translates it as: emptiness, void.

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

Extended definition

emptiness, void, waste

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H922 is translated

  • emptiness ×3

Bible verses with H922 (bôhûw)

Bôhûw appears in 3 verses.

  • Genesis 1:2

    And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

  • Isaiah 34:11

    But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.

  • Jeremiah 4:23

    I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.