Psalm 95/Notes/Lexical.v. 6.109181

v. 6 – We have glossed both לְ֭כוּ in v. 1 and בֹּ֭אוּ in the present verse as "come," forming part of the compound cohortative, "Come and do x / let us do x," despite belonging to different verbal roots in Hebrew. For this construction, לְכוּ is much more common (see the second-person imperatives in Pss 34:12; 46:9; 66:5, 16, and the first-person cohortative following—as in the present instance—in Ps 83:5) than בֹּאוּ, which does not occur elsewhere in the Psalms (though see 1 Kgs 20:33; 2 Kgs 10:25; Ezek 33:30; Joel 1:13; 4:13, and the first-person cohortative in Jer 35:11; 50:5; 51:10). It is possible that בֹּאוּ was chosen here to form the inclusio with the root בוא in the second half of the psalm (see the poetic structure).