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# אַוָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H185

**desire** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

desire [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/185/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַוָּה: n.f. desire [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/185/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. desire—cstr. אַוַּת Dt 12:15 + 5 times; sf. אַוָּתִי Ho 10:10—desire, will, usually sq. נֶפֶשׁ; of natural human desire (morally indiff.), for meat Dt 12:15, 20, 21; of longing for sanctuary 18:6; of royal good pleasure 1 S 23:20; without נֶפֶשׁ, of wild-ass Je 2:24; of divine will Ho 10:10.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the desire (6); desire (1).

## In the verses

[Hosea 10:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.10.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.10.10/#tree)

בְּאַוָּתִ֖י וְאֶסֳּרֵ֑ם וְאֻסְּפ֤וּ עֲלֵיהֶם֙ עַמִּ֔ים בְּאָסְרָ֖ם לִשְׁתֵּ֥י עוֹנֹתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* at desire my and I will.discipline.them and they.will.be.gathered on them peoples when harness them to the.two iniquities their

*JPS 1917:* When it is My desire, I will chastise them; and the peoples shall be gathered against them, when they are yoked to their two rings.

[1 Samuel 23:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.23.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.23.20/#tree)

וְ֠עַתָּה לְכָל־אַוַּ֨ת נַפְשְׁךָ֥ הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ לָרֶ֖דֶת רֵ֑ד וְלָ֥נוּ הַסְגִּיר֖וֹ בְּיַ֥ד הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

*Word for word:* and now to all the.desire your.self your O king to come.down come.down and.\[belongs\] to us to deliver.him.up in the.hand of the.king

*JPS 1917:* 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.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/185.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/185/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).