Lexical Definition

‎בֹּהוּ‎ bôhûw (bo'-hoo) void ^H:N-M
from an unused root (meaning to be empty)

emptiness, void.

• a vacuity, i.e. (superficially) an undistinguishable ruin

1) emptiness, void, waste

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎בֹּ֫הוּ‎ noun [masculine] emptiness (on form see Ges^{«GKC:84a»§ 84a}, 1 b Sta^{§ 95, 198 a, on usage} compare Lag^{Or. ii. 60 f.}) always with ‎תֹּהוּ‎ q. v.; — ‎תֹּהוּ וָבֹהוּ‎ Gen 1:2 of primeval earth; Jer 4:23 of earth under judgment of ‎׳‎‎י‎; ‎קַותֿֿהֹוּ‎ ‎וְאַבְנֵי בֹהוּ‎ Isa 34:11, the line of wasteness and the stones of emptiness, i.e. plummets, employed, not as usual for building, but for destroying walls; compare Di & see below ‎אבן‎

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