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# תַּאֲבָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8375

**longing** — 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

longing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8375/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תַּאֲבָה: n.f. longing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8375/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. longing;—ψ 119:20.

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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 119:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.20/#tree)

גָּרְסָ֣ה נַפְשִׁ֣י לְתַאֲבָ֑ה אֶֽל־מִשְׁפָּטֶ֥יךָ בְכָל־עֵֽת׃

*Word for word:* it.is.crushed self my for longing to judgments your at every time

*JPS 1917:* My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto Thine ordinances at all times.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8375.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8375/): 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).