מְבוֹאָה
entry
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H3997 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezekiel 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew noun מבואה centers on the idea of “entry.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Hebrew Bible. Ezekiel dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. Found nowhere else but Ezekiel 27:3. Related forms include מבוא and מובא. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3997 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezekiel 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Entry 1×
- American Standard Version: Entry 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Gateway 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Gates 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3997 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3997 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3997 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3997 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- 1. entrance, i.e. place or way of entrance, into a city Ju 1:24, 25 1 Ch 4:39 Pr 8:3 (מ׳ פְּתָחִים); into buildings 2 K 11:16; 16:18 1 Ch 9:19 (שֹׁמְרֵי הַמָּבוֹא), 2 Ch 23:13, 15 Je 38:14 Ez 42:9; 46:19; v. also מְבוֹאֹת יָם entrance of (the) sea, gate of the sea, of situation of Tyre Ez 27:3. e.g. Judges 1:24
- 2. entering, act of entrance, by violence, in storm of city Ez 26:10; coming in or together, making a crowd, כִּמְבוֹא עָ֑ם Ez 33:31 sim. of eagerness to hear Yahweh’s word; in phrase אֶת־מוֹצָאֲךָ וְאֶת־מבואך 2 S 3:25 thy going out and thy coming in; mode of entering temple, or the people who enter Ez 44:5; particularly of sunset מְבוֹא הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ ψ 104:19; = west Dt 11:30; Jos 1:4; 23:4 הַיָּם הַגָּדוֹל מְבוֹא הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ = Mediterranean, Zc 8:7 אֶרֶץ מְבוֹא הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ (‖ אֶרֶץ מִזְרָח), Mal 1:11 ψ 50:1; 113:3 sunset = west, opp. sunrise = east; in phr. from E. to W., i. e. over the whole earth, everywhere on earth. e.g. Ezekiel 26:10
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.m. Je 38:14 entrance, a coming in, entering;—מ׳ abs. Je 38:14 + 3 times + Ez 42:9 Kt (Qr מֵבִיא wrong, cf. Co); cstr. מְבוֹא Dt 11:30 + 12 times; sf. מְבוֹאוֹ ψ 104:19 + 2 times; מְבֹאוֹ ψ 50:1; מבואך 2 S 3:25 Kt (Qr מוֹבָאֶ֑ךָ inexplicable cf. Dr); pl. cstr. מְבוֹאֵי Ez 26:10, מְבוֹאֹת Ez 27:3;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from מבוא (mâbôwʼ) (H3996) — entrance.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
מְבוֹאָה
- m. ch. = h. מָבוֹי. Erub. 15ᵃ. B. Bath. 21ᵇ בר מ׳ the inmate (of a building) in an alley. Keth. 77ᵇ ההיא מ׳ (fem.).
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3997, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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