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# תָּאַב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8373

**long** — used 2 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

long [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8373/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תָּאֵב: vb. long [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8373/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. long for (NH id., תִּיאֲבוֹן desire; Aramaic תְּאֵב, תְּאִיב long for;? secondary √ from אָבָה, or denom. from תַּאֲבָה, and this from אבה, cf. Buhl; but v. Ol§ 137);— Pf. 1 s. תָּאַ֫בְתִּי, c. ל rei, ψ 119:40, 174.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I long (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 119:40](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.40/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.40/#tree)

הִ֭נֵּה תָּאַ֣בְתִּי לְפִקֻּדֶ֑יךָ בְּצִדְקָתְךָ֥ חַיֵּֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* here! I.long for precepts your in righteousness your preserve me.alive

*JPS 1917:* Behold, I have longed after Thy precepts; quicken me in Thy righteousness.

[Psalms 119:174](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.174/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.174/#tree)

תָּאַ֣בְתִּי לִֽישׁוּעָתְךָ֣ יְהוָ֑ה וְ֝תֽוֹרָתְךָ֗ שַׁעֲשֻׁעָֽי׃

*Word for word:* I.long for salvation your O.Yahweh and law your delight(s) \[is\].my

*JPS 1917:* I have longed for Thy salvation, O LORD; and Thy law is my delight.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8373.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8373/): 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).