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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. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

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