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הַוָּה

hav.vah · desire

Hebrew · Strong's H1942 · Noun · Sounds like: hav-vaw' · 16 occurrences

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

from הָוָא (in the sense of eagerly coveting and rushing upon; by implication, of falling); desire; also ruin; calamity, iniquity, mischief, mischievous (thing), naughtiness, naughty, noisome, perverse thing, substance, very wickedness.

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Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
הַוָּה n.f. 1. desire; 2. chasm, fig. destruction

Every occurrence

  1. Job 6:2 וְ֝הַוָּתִ֗י ve.hai.ya.ti · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!

  2. Job 6:30 הַוּֽוֹת׃ ha.Vot · A person, place or thing

    Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern mischievous things?

  3. Job 30:13 לְהַוָּתִ֥י le.ha.va.Ti · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, Even men that have no helper.

  4. Psalms 5:9 הַ֫וּ֥וֹת ha.Vot · A person, place or thing

    For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is very wickedness; Their throat is an open sepulchre; They flatter with their tongue.

  5. Psalms 38:12 הַוּ֑וֹת ha.Vot · A person, place or thing

    They also that seek after my life lay snares for me; And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, And meditate deceits all the day long.

  6. Psalms 52:2 הַ֭וּוֹת Ha.Vot · A person, place or thing

    Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

  7. Psalms 52:7 בְּהַוָּתֽוֹ׃ be.ha.va.To · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength, But trusted in the abundance of his riches, And strengthened himself in his wickedness.

  8. Psalms 55:11 הַוּ֥וֹת ha.Vot · A person, place or thing

    Wickedness is in the midst thereof: Oppression and guile depart not from its streets.

  9. Psalms 57:1 הַוּֽוֹת׃ ha.Vot · A person, place or thing

    For the Chief Musician; set to Al-tashheth. A Psalm of David. Michtam; when he fled from Saul, in the cave. Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me; For my soul taketh refuge in thee: Yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I take refuge, Until these calamities be overpast.

  10. Psalms 91:3 הַוּֽוֹת׃ ha.Vot · A person, place or thing

    For he will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, And from the deadly pestilence.

  11. Psalms 94:20 הַוּ֑וֹת ha.Vot · A person, place or thing

    Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee, Which frameth mischief by statute?

  12. Proverbs 10:3 וְהַוַּ֖ת ve.ha.Vat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Jehovah will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish; But he thrusteth away the desire of the wicked.

  13. Proverbs 11:6 וּ֝בְהַוַּ֗ת u.ve.ha.Vat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them; But the treacherous shall be taken in their own iniquity.

  14. Proverbs 17:4 הַוֹּֽת׃ ha.Vot · A person, place or thing

    An evil-doer giveth heed to wicked lips; And a liar giveth ear to a mischievous tongue.

  15. Proverbs 19:13 הַוֹּ֣ת ha.Vot · A person, place or thing

    A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

  16. Micah 7:3 הַוַּ֥ת ha.Vat · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently; the prince asketh, and the judge is ready for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth the evil desire of his soul: thus they weave it together.

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