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אַוָּה

av.vah · desire

Hebrew · Strong's H185 · Noun · Sounds like: av-vaw' · 7 occurrences

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

from אָוָה; longing; desire, lust after, pleasure.

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Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
[אַוָּה] n.f. desire

Every occurrence

  1. Deuteronomy 12:15 אַוַּ֨ת 'a.Vat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Notwithstanding, thou mayest kill and eat flesh within all thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul, according to the blessing of Jehovah thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart.

  2. Deuteronomy 12:20 אַוַּ֥ת 'a.Vat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    When Jehovah thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul desireth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, after all the desire of thy soul.

  3. Deuteronomy 12:21 אַוַּ֥ת 'a.Vat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    If the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to put his name there, be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which Jehovah hath given thee, as I have commanded thee; and thou mayest eat within thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul.

  4. Deuteronomy 18:6 אַוַּ֣ת 'a.Vat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourneth, and come with all the desire of his soul unto the place which Jehovah shall choose;

  5. 1 Samuel 23:20 אַוַּ֨ת 'a.Vat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Now therefore, O king, come down, according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him up into the king's hand.

  6. Jeremiah 2:24 בְּאַוַּ֤ת be.'a.Vat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    a wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

  7. Hosea 10:10 בְּאַוָּתִ֖י be.'a.va.Ti · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    When it is my desire, I will chastise them; and the peoples shall be gathered against them, when they are bound to their two transgressions.

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