Definition

an entrance (the place or the act); specifically sunset or the west; also (adverb with preposition) towards

Etymology

from H935 (בּוֹא); (with or without H8121 (שֶׁמֶשׁ))

Where the KJV renders it

• by which came
• as cometh
• in coming
• as men enter into
• entering
• entrance into
• entry
• where goeth
• going down
• westward. Compare H4126 (מוֹבָא)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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