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# אֲרֶשֶׁת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H782

**desire** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

desire [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/782/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲרֶ֫שֶׁת: n.f. desire, request [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/782/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. desire, request (Assyrian êrištu Dll.c.) only cstr. א׳ שְׂפָתָיו ψ 21:3 (‖ תַּאֲוַת לִבּוֹ) request granted by י׳.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 21:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.21.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.21.3/#tree)

תַּאֲוַ֣ת לִ֭בּוֹ נָתַ֣תָּה לּ֑וֹ וַאֲרֶ֥שֶׁת שְׂ֝פָתָ֗יו בַּל־מָנַ֥עְתָּ סֶּֽלָה׃

*Word for word:* the.desire his.heart his you.have.given to him and the.request his.lips his not you.have.withheld Selah

*JPS 1917:* Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and the request of his lips Thou hast not withholden.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/782.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/782/): 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).