Entry
מְבוֹאָהStrong’s H3997mevoah (me-vo-ah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Mevoah is the Hebrew word usually translated “entrances of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.”
Meaning
- Entry, entrance, a coming in, entering
How it's translated
- entrances of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
מְבוֹאָה mevoah · entry
entry, entrance, a coming in, entering Another spelling of ma.vo (מָבוֹא "entrance" H3996)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “entry” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EN'TRY, noun
The passage by which persons enter a house or other building.
- The act of entering; entrance; ingress; as the entry of a person into a house or city; the entry of a river into the sea or a lake; the entry of air into the blood; the entry of a spear into the flesh.
- The act of entering and taking possession of lands or other estate.
- The act of committing to writing, or of recording in a book.
- The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the custom house, to procure license to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods.
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.