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# תַּאֲוָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8378

**desire** — used 20 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

desire [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8378/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תַּאֲוָה: n.f. desire n.pr. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8378/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. desire—abs. Gn 3:6 +; cstr. תַּאֲוַת ψ 10:3 + etc.;— desire, wish Pr 13:12, 19; 18:1; of physical appetite, longing for dainty food מַאֲכַל ת׳ Jb 33:20; distinctly good sense ψ 10:17; 38:10 Pr 11:23, 19:22 (? cf. infr.) Is 26:8 (לְשִׁמְךָ וּלְזִכְרְךָ ת׳־נָ֑פֶשׁ); bad sense, lust, appetite, covetousness ψ 10:3 (ת׳ נַפְשׁוֹ) 112:10; Pr 21:25, 26 (as acc. cogn.); particularly of longing for dainties of Egypt Nu 11:4 ψ 106:14 (both acc. cogn.) 78:30 & in n.pr. given to place where it occurred קִבְרוֹת הַתַּאֲוָה (q.v.) Nu 11:34, 35; 33:16, 17 Dt 9:22. thing desired, in good sense Pr 10:24 so ת׳ לִבּוֹ ψ 21:3; bad sense ψ 78:29; thing desirable (to senses) Gn 3:6 (ת׳ לְעֵינַיִם); perhaps also Pr 19:22 the ornament of a man is his kindness (Ra Ki, etc. but cf. supr.)\*

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 20 of its verses cited, 1 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: \[the\] desire (5); desire (5); a craving (3).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 11:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.23/#tree)

תַּאֲוַ֣ת צַדִּיקִ֣ים אַךְ־ט֑וֹב תִּקְוַ֖ת רְשָׁעִ֣ים עֶבְרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].desire of.righteous.\[people\] only \[is\].good \[the\].hope of.wicked.\[people\] \[is\].fury

*JPS 1917:* The desire of the righteous is only good; but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

[Proverbs 18:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.18.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.18.1/#tree)

לְֽ֭תַאֲוָה יְבַקֵּ֣שׁ נִפְרָ֑ד בְּכָל־תּ֝וּשִׁיָּ֗ה יִתְגַּלָּֽע׃

*Word for word:* (to) desire he.seeks \[one.who\].separates.himself on all sound.wisdom he.breaks.out

*JPS 1917:* He that separateth himself seeketh his own desire, and snarlest against all sound wisdom.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8378.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8378/): 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).