Entrance
מָבוֹאStrong’s H3996mavo (ma-vo)
Appears in 22 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mavo is the Hebrew word usually translated “entrance of”, “setting of” and “setting its”. It appears in 22 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;”
Meaning
- Entrance, a coming in, entering
- Sunsetsunset, west
How it's translated
- entrance of 6
- setting of 4
- setting its 4
- to entrance of 2
- the entrance 1
- at the entrance 1
- an entrance 1
- like entering of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 4
- Psalms 3
- Joshua 2
- Judges 2
- 2 Kings 2
- 1 Chronicles 2
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 11:30Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?
- Joshua 1:4From 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 of the sun, shall be your coast.
- Joshua 23:4Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.
- Judges 1:24And the spies saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said unto him, Shew us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city, and we will shew thee mercy.
- Judges 1:25And when he shewed them the entrance into the city, they smote the city with the edge of the sword; but they let go the man and all his family.
- 2 Kings 11:16And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which the horses came into the king’s house: and there was she slain.
Hebrew dictionary
מָבוֹא mavo · entrance
1) entrance, a coming in, entering 2) sunset 2a) sunset 2b) sunset, west Also means: me.vo.ah (מְבוֹאָה "entry" H3997)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “entrance” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EN'TRANCE, noun
[Latin intrans, intro.]
- The act of entering into a place; as the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment.
- The power of entering.
- The door, gate, passage or avenue, by which a place may be entered.“They said, show us the entrance into the city” Judges 1:24
- Commencement; initiation; beginning.
All definitions
- The act of taking possession, as of land; as the entrance of an heir or a disseizor into lands and tenements.
- The act of taking possession, as of an office.
- The act of entering a ship or goods at the custom-house.
- The beginning of any thing.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.