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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. 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.

  2. 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.

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

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

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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?

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