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הַוָּה

hav.vah · desire

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

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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.

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