בּוּל
produce
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H944 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 books. 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.
Job 1 verse
Isaiah 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.
At its core, בול (bûwl) means “produce.” It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in Job (50% of all occurrences). First canonically at Job 40:20, it enters the text early. From the same root come יבול and בול. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H944 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
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 2 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 50%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 50%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 3 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Food 1×, Stock 1×
- American Standard Version†: Stock 1×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Block 1×, Produce 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Food 1×, Product of 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H944 across 2† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H944 across 1† tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H944 across 2† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H944 across 2† tagged occurrences — 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 0 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. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
בול I [m.] Bul, 8th month = Marcheswan, Assyrian Araḫ samna, 1 K 6
בול II oduct, produce, v. יבול.
בול III [m.] produce, outgrowth (abbrev. or scribal error for foregoing)
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
I. n.[m.] Bul, 8th month = Marcheswan, Assyrian Araḫ samna, 1 K 6:38 הַחֹדֶשׁ הַשְּׁמִינִי בְּיֶרַח בּוּל הוּא; (Canaanitish; Ph. ירח בל; a Palm. god is בול (in n.pr. עבדבול, Vog93 זבדבול etc.) & ירחבול (Vog93, moon-god), which DHMBer. Wien. Akkadian cviii. 977 connects with Heb. בּוּל; BaeRel. 87 f. (q.v.) thinks = בעל, cf. Thes p. 560).
II. n.m. product, produce, v. יבול.
III. n.[m.] produce, outgrowth (abbrev. or scribal error for foregoing)—only sg. cstr. ב׳ הָרִים Jb 40:20; also ב׳ עֵץ Is 44:19 the produce of a tree, i.e. a block of wood.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from יבול (yᵉbûwl) (H2981) — produce.
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.
בּוּל I
- to mix, v. בִּיל. [Y. Snh. X, 27ᵈ קום ב׳ read כּוּל.]
בּוּל II
- (v. preced. a. בָּלַל)
- 1. something kneaded together, a handful, ball, lump. Sabb. 67ᵇ; 128ᵇ ב׳ של מלח a lump of salt. B. Mets. 90ᵃ ב׳ מאותו המין a handful (fodder) of the same species; v. infra.—Pl. בּוּלוֹת, בּוּלִים, בּוּלִין clods, v. next w.—Gen. R. s. 13 ב׳ ב׳ של אדמה clods of moist ground. Num. R. s. 2 sand is thrown into the fire ומוציאו בולים and he brings it out as lumps (of glass); v. בּוּלָס.
- 2. fodder. Lev. R. s. 22 (expl. בול הרים Job XL, 20); Tanḥ. Pinḥ. 12. e.g. Job 40:20
בּוּל III
- (prob. fr. נבל) Bul, the biblical name for the eighth month (Marḥeshvan); v. מַרְחֶשְׁוַן. R. Hash. I, 56ᵈ bot. (etym. of בול) שהעלה נובלת וכ׳ the leaves decay and the ground is cloddy; v. preced.—Tanḥ. Noaḥ 11, the month is named bul, ירח שבוללין לבהמות וכ׳ the month when cattle is given mixed fodder from what is in the house; Pesik. R. s. 7.
בִּיל
- (cmp. b. h. בָּלַל) to mix, knead; trnsf. (cmp. גרס, דרש) to study thoroughly. Men. 65ᵃ (play on בלשן, Neh. VII, 7; cmp. בלשׁ) הוה בָּיֵיל … ודריש he studied languages and explained them. e.g. Nehemiah 7:7
- same; trnsf. to discuss. Y. Ab. Zar. III, 43ᵃ מאן דתני אוֹבִיל נייבל (read נְבַיֵּיל) he who reads in the Mish. (III, 5; v. בִּין Hif.) obil, means, Let us discuss the subject.
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.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H944 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ב֭וּל | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Job 40:20 | 1 |
| לְ/ב֥וּל | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 44:19 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H944, 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
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
