Mavo מָבוֹא

Mavo (Hebrew מָבוֹא, Strong's H3996) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “entrance”. It occurs 22 times in 22 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Mavo, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy 11:30
  Are 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?Are not these mountains across the Jordan, west of the road toward the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah opposite Gilgal near the Oak of Moreh?

Joshua

• Joshua 1:4
  From 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.Your territory shall extend from the wilderness and Lebanon to the great River Euphrates—all the land of the Hittites—and west as far as the Great Sea.
• Joshua 23:4
  Behold, 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.See, I have allotted as an inheritance to your tribes these remaining nations, including all the nations I have already cut off, from the Jordan westward to the Great Sea.

Judges

• Judges 1:24
  And 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.and when the spies saw a man coming out of the city, they said to him, “Please show us how to get into the city, and we will treat you kindly.”
• Judges 1:25
  And 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.So the man showed them the entrance to the city, and they put the city to the sword but released that man and all his family.

2 Kings

• 2 Kings 11:16
  And 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.So they seized Athaliah as she reached the horses’ entrance to the palace grounds, and there she was put to death.
• 2 Kings 16:18
  And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king’s entry without, turned he from the house of the Lord for the king of Assyria.And on account of the king of Assyria, he removed the Sabbath canopy they had built in the temple and closed the royal entryway outside the house of the LORD.

1 Chronicles

• 1 Chronicles 4:39
  And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.and they journeyed to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, in search of pasture for their flocks.
• 1 Chronicles 9:19
  And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle: and their fathers, being over the host of the Lord, were keepers of the entry.Shallum son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his relatives from the Korahites were assigned to guard the thresholds of the Tent, just as their fathers had been assigned to guard the entrance to the dwelling of the LORD.

2 Chronicles

• 2 Chronicles 23:13
  And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.And she looked out and saw the king standing by his pillar at the entrance. The officers and trumpeters were beside the king, and all the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets, while the singers with musical instruments were leading the praises. Then Athaliah tore her clothes and screamed, “Treason, treason!”
• 2 Chronicles 23:15
  So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king’s house, they slew her there.So they seized Athaliah as she reached the entrance of the Horse Gate to the palace grounds, and there they put her to death.

Psalms

• Psalm 50:1
  The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from where the sun rises to where it sets.
• Psalm 104:19
  He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows when to set.
• Psalm 113:3
  From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD’s name is to be praised.From where the sun rises to where it sets, the name of the LORD is praised.

Proverbs

• Proverbs 8:3
  She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.Beside the gates to the city, at the entrances she cries out:

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 38:14
  Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that is in the house of the Lord: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me.Then King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and received him at the third entrance to the house of the LORD. “I am going to ask you something,” said the king to Jeremiah. “Do not hide anything from me.”

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 26:10
  By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.His multitude of horses will cover you in their dust. When he enters your gates as an army entering a breached city, your walls will shake from the noise of cavalry, wagons, and chariots.
• Ezekiel 33:31
  And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain.
• Ezekiel 44:5
  And the Lord said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the Lord, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary.The LORD said to me: “Son of man, pay attention; look carefully with your eyes and listen closely with your ears to everything I tell you concerning all the statutes and laws of the house of the LORD. Take careful note of the entrance to the temple, along with all the exits of the sanctuary.
• Ezekiel 46:19
  After he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which looked toward the north: and, behold, there was a place on the two sides westward.Then the man brought me through the entrance at the side of the gate into the holy chambers facing north, which belonged to the priests, and he showed me a place there at the far western end

Zechariah

• Zechariah 8:7
  Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will save My people from the land of the east and from the land of the west.

Malachi

• Malachi 1:11
  For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of hosts.For My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place, incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name, because My name will be great among the nations,” says the LORD of Hosts.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).