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# תַּאֲוָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8379

**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/1514/8379/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תַּאֲוָה³: n.f. boundary [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8379/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. boundary (as described by a mark?);—cstr. תַּאֲוַת גִּבְעֹת עוֹלָם Gn 49:26 (this meaning AV RV Ew§ 186b \[√ תָּאָה\] De Gn √ אוה, תאה, תוה), but desire = desirable things, so most.

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 (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Genesis 49:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.26/#tree)

בִּרְכֹ֣ת אָבִ֗יךָ גָּֽבְרוּ֙ עַל־בִּרְכֹ֣ת הוֹרַ֔י עַֽד־תַּאֲוַ֖ת גִּבְעֹ֣ת עוֹלָ֑ם תִּֽהְיֶ֙ין֙לְרֹ֣אשׁ יוֹסֵ֔ף וּלְקָדְקֹ֖ד נְזִ֥יר אֶחָֽיו׃פ

*Word for word:* the.blessings your.father your they.have.prevailed over the.blessings of \[those.\[masc\].who\].conceived.me to desire of.hills of.antiquity may.they.belong to the.head of.Joseph and to the.crown.of.the.head of.the.consecrated.one his.brothers his

*JPS 1917:* The blessings of thy father are mighty beyond the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills; they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of the prince among his brethren.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8379.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8379/): 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).