TR: bôʾ → ἔρχομαι (Coming / Arrival)¶

The Chain¶

Hebrew OT                 LXX (Greek OT)          Greek NT
─────────                 ───────────────         ────────
בּוֹא (bôʾ)            →   ἔρχομαι (érchomai)  →  ἔρχομαι (érchomai)
H935, 2306x               LXX co-occ: 654x        G2064, 604x
"come, go, enter,         PMI score: 20.33        "come, go, arrive"
bring"

The LXX's primary rendering of Hebrew bôʾ is G2064 ἔρχομαι (654 shared verses, PMI 20.33 — the highest pairing for both words). A secondary bridge is G1525 εἰσέρχομαι (522 shared verses, "enter"), which handles the directional-inward sense of bôʾ and also enters the NT heavily. The NT inherits a lexical field — ἔρχομαι + its compounds — saturated by 1500 years of OT semantic weight.

OT Usage (Hebrew)¶

Strong's	Word	POS	Occurrences	Primary Meaning
H935	בּוֹא bôʾ	Verb (primitive root)	2,306 verses (3,042 tokens)	come, go, enter; Hiphil: bring, lead in
H858/H857	אֲתָה/אָתָא ʼāthâh	Verb	21	poetic/Aramaic cognate "come"
H3996	מָבוֹא mabôʾ	Noun	25	entrance, going in, setting (of sun)
H8393	תְּבוּאָה tᵉbûʼâh	Noun	43	produce, what is brought in (harvest)

Canonical study: H935-bo.md

Key OT passages: - Gen 2:19 — "and brought (bôʾ) [them] unto Adam" — first occurrence, Hiphil causative - Joel 2:1 — "the day of the LORD cometh (bôʾ), for it is nigh at hand" — eschatological "coming" - Dan 8:17 — "So he came near (wayyāḇōʾ) where I stood" — angelic approach (Gabriel to Daniel) - Mal 3:1 — "the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come (bôʾ) to his temple... behold, he shall come (bôʾ)"

LXX Bridge¶

H935 bôʾ → Greek renderings¶

Greek	Word	Co-occ	PMI Score	Notes
G2064	ἔρχομαι érchomai	654	20.33	Primary — general "come"
G1525	εἰσέρχομαι eisérchomai	522	20.19	Compound — "enter into" (inward motion)
G2240	ἥκω hḗkō	185	16.53	"arrive, be present" (emphatic, often eschatological)
G1531	εἰσπορεύομαι eisporeúomai	121	15.32	"enter" (synonym of eisérchomai)
G1521	εἰσάγω eiságō	112	14.65	Hiphil causative — "bring in"
G5342	φέρω phérō	144	13.77	Hiphil causative — "carry, bring"
G3854	παραγίνομαι paragínomai	106	14.87	"approach, become present"
G1533	εἰσφέρω eisphérō	69	13.45	"carry in" (Hiphil compound)

G2064 érchomai ← Hebrew sources¶

Hebrew	Word	Co-occ	PMI
H935	bôʾ	654	20.33
H2009	hinnêh ("behold")	98	8.86
H5704	ʻad ("until")	103	7.12
H858	ʼâthâh ("come")	6	7.01
H5046	nâgad ("declare")	40	6.83

Semantic shift in translation: Minimal. The LXX preserves bôʾ's range almost intact by deploying érchomai plus the εἰσ- prefix family for the "enter" sense and ἄγω/φέρω for the Hiphil causative. Where Hebrew uses one verb across motion + idiomatic "come to pass" + causative "bring," the LXX distributes these across érchomai (come), γίνομαι (come to pass), and εἰσάγω/φέρω (bring). The result: Greek readers see the same motion-space but with sharper lexical boundaries between "come," "enter," and "bring."

NT Usage (Greek)¶

Strong's	Word	POS	Occurrences	Primary Meaning
G2064	ἔρχομαι érchomai	Verb (middle)	604	come, go, arrive
G1525	εἰσέρχομαι eisérchomai	Verb (compound)	~194	enter
G1831	ἐξέρχομαι exérchomai	Verb (compound)	~218	go out
G2240	ἥκω hḗkō	Verb	~26	have come, be present
G3854	παραγίνομαι paragínomai	Verb	~37	arrive, appear

Canonical study: G2064-erchomai.md

Key NT passages: - Matt 2:2 — "for we have seen his star in the east, and are come (érchomai) to worship him" — first NT occurrence, Magi's arrival - Mark 1:7 — "There cometh (érchomai) one mightier than I after me" — John's Messianic herald - Rev 1:7 — "Behold, he cometh (érchomai) with clouds" (cf. Dan 7:13 LXX) - Rev 22:20 — "Surely I come (érchomai) quickly. Amen. Even so, come (érchomai), Lord Jesus" — the NT's final word

Direct OT→NT Quotations Using This Chain¶

NT Verse	Quotes OT	Shared Word	Significance
Matt 21:9 / Mark 11:9 / John 12:13	Ps 118:26	bôʾ → érchomai	"Blessed [is] he that cometh in the name of the Lord" — Hebrew habbāʾ (qal participle of bôʾ), LXX ὁ ἐρχόμενος, NT cites verbatim
Matt 11:3 / Luke 7:19	implicit Mal 3:1; Ps 118:26	bôʾ → érchomai	"Art thou he that should come (ὁ ἐρχόμενος)?" — messianic title built on bôʾ
Heb 10:37	Hab 2:3	bôʾ → érchomai	"he that shall come (ὁ ἐρχόμενος) will come (ἥξει), and will not tarry" — both érchomai and hḗkō from bôʾ
Rev 1:7	Dan 7:13	bôʾ → érchomai	"Behold, he cometh with clouds" — Son of Man coming
John 12:15	Zech 9:9	bôʾ → érchomai	"Behold, thy King cometh"

Continuity and Shifts¶

What stays the same across testaments: - Messianic "Coming One" title. The participle "the coming one" (habbāʾ / ὁ ἐρχόμενος) becomes a fixed messianic designation by the intertestamental period and enters the NT untranslated in sense. - Eschatological day-language. "The day of the LORD cometh" (Joel, Mal, Zech) carries over into "he cometh with clouds" (Rev) and "the day of the Lord cometh as a thief" (1 Thess 5:2, 2 Pet 3:10). - Angelic/divine approach formula. bôʾ for an angel arriving (Dan 8:17, 9:22, 10:12) matches érchomai for Gabriel to Mary (Luke 1:28) and the angel to the empty tomb (Matt 28:2). - Prophetic fulfillment "come to pass." Hebrew bôʾ for a word "coming to pass" survives via γίνομαι primarily, but érchomai also carries it (e.g., "until all be fulfilled" idioms).

What shifts: - The Hiphil causative "bring" mostly splits off. In the NT, "bring" is carried by ἄγω, φέρω, and compounds — érchomai itself is almost exclusively intransitive. The Hebrew one-root coverage of come/bring becomes two lexical fields in Greek. - The sexual euphemism disappears. NT Greek uses different idioms; érchomai does not inherit bôʾ's "go in unto" sense. - "Enter" narrows into εἰσέρχομαι. What Hebrew did with bôʾ + preposition, NT Greek specializes with the εἰσ- compound — entering the kingdom, entering rest, entering the holy place (Heb 9). - Christological intensification. bôʾ was used of anyone arriving; ὁ ἐρχόμενος becomes a near-title. The Hebrew verb's semantic breadth gets concentrated around one figure in NT usage.