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# בּוּל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H945

**Bul** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Bul [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/945/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בּוּל: Bul [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/945/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] Bul, 8th month = Marcheswan, Assyrian Araḫ samna, 1 K 6:38 הַחֹדֶשׁ הַשְּׁמִינִי בְּיֶרַח בּוּל הוּא; (Canaanitish; Ph. ירח בל; a Palm. god is בול (in n.pr. עבדבול, Vog93 זבדבול etc.) & ירחבול (Vog93, moon-god), which DHMBer. Wien. Akkadian cviii. 977 connects with Heb. בּוּל; BaeRel. 87 f. (q.v.) thinks = בעל, cf. Thes p. 560).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech differs, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (17 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (13 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Bul (1).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 6:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.38/#tree)

וּבַשָּׁנָה֩ הָאַחַ֨ת עֶשְׂרֵ֜ה בְּיֶ֣רַח בּ֗וּל ה֚וּא הַחֹ֣דֶשׁ הַשְּׁמִינִ֔י כָּלָ֣ה הַבַּ֔יִת לְכָל־דְּבָרָ֖יו וּלְכָל־מִשְׁפָּטָ֑יו וַיִּבְנֵ֖הוּ שֶׁ֥בַע שָׁנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and in the year (the).one plus ten in the.month of.Bul that \[was\].the month (the) eighth it.was.complete the house to all parts its and to all plans its and he built.it seven years

*JPS 1917:* And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/945.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/945/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).