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# יָאַב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2968

**long** — 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

long [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2968/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָאַב: vb. long, desire [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2968/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. long, desire (Aramaic ܝܐܶܒ, and especially Ethpa. and deriv.)— Pf. 1 s. לְמִצְוֹתֶיךָ יָאָ֑בְתִּי ψ 119:131, late Aramaism.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (12 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 119:131](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.131/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.131/#tree)

פִּֽי־פָ֭עַרְתִּי וָאֶשְׁאָ֑פָה כִּ֖י לְמִצְוֺתֶ֣יךָ יָאָֽבְתִּי׃

*Word for word:* mouth my I.opened.wide and I panted (dm) for commandments your I.longed

*JPS 1917:* I opened wide my mouth, and panted; for I longed for Thy commandments.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2968.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2968/): 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).