Cry (995) boe by Greek Word Studies

Boé (995) (fem. noun) means a cry, an outcry or an exclamation as for help. The only NT use is in (James 5:4) In secular Greek boé referred to a loud cry, shout, a battle-cry, the roar of the sea, the sound of musical instruments, the cry of birds or beasts. James 5:4 "Behold, the pay of the laborers who mowed your fields, and which has been withheld (fraudulently) by you, cries out (krazo - an onomatopoeia imitating the hoarse cry of the raven) against you; and the outcry (boé) of those who did the harvesting has reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth." Boé is used 7 times in the LXX - Ex 2:23; 1Sam. 4:14; 9:16; 2Chr. 33:13; Esther 1:1; Isa. 15:8; Ezek. 21:22 In the Septuagint (Greek) translation of Ex2:23 we read "Now it came about in the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died. And the sons of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried out; (anaboao = aná = emphatic, again + boáo (994) cry out cry out loud, exclaim, wail over misfortune, see uses in Nu 20:16 Ezek 11:13) and their cry for help (boé) because of their bondage rose up to God." In the Septuagint of 1Sa 9:16 we read "About this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over My people Israel; and he shall deliver My people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have regarded My people, because their cry has come to (in Greek literally "before Me") Me." In 2Chr 33:11-13 boe translates the Hebrew word for supplication (make a humble entreaty) which Manasseh made to Jehovah after the Assyrians captured him with hooks and carried him off to Babylon. The Scripture says that: "Therefore (check the immediate context - 2Chr 33:10 - to find out why this term of conclusion "therefore" is here) the Lord brought the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria against them, and they captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze chains, and took him to Babylon. And when (time phrase) he was in distress, he entreated the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. When (time phrase) he prayed to Him, He was moved by his entreaty and heard his supplication (boe), and brought him again to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then (time phrase marks sequence, always ask "when is this?") Manasseh knew that the LORD was God." This picture of repentance and apparent "conversion" is an amazing vignette in life of a king who had perpetrated untold wickedness, idolatry, murder of his children and desecration of the Temple. Most of us would have given up on such a despicable person, but not our longsuffering God. Yes God did send trouble and plenty of it in the form of the Assyrians with their hooks. This should have been a warning to the nation that God was getting ready to send them into captivity because of their continual sin. When Manasseh found himself in real trouble, he sincerely came back to God (repentance). Our amazing longsuffering God forgave him and restored him! When Manasseh returned to Jerusalem, he took away the strange gods and the idols out of the house of the Lord, and he repaired the altar of the Lord and sacrificed there (read 2Chronicles 33).

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