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# תִּקְוָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8615

**hope** — used 32 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

hope [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8615/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תִּקְוָה²: n.f. hope [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8615/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. hope;—abs. ת׳ Ho 2:17 +; cstr. תִּקְוַת Jb 8:13 +; sf. תִּקְוָתִי 6:8 +, etc.;— hope, Je 31:17; La 3:29; Jb 5:16; 7:6; 11:18, 20; 14:7, 19; 17:15a; 19:10; ψ 62:6; Pr 19:18; 26:12; 29:20; Ru 1:12; פֶּתַח ת׳ Ho 2:17; אֲסִירֵי הַתּ׳ Zc 9:12 (i.e. with hope of deliverance). = ground of hope Jb 4:6 ψ 71:5 (cf. 62:6). things hoped for, outcome, Ez 19:5; 37:11; Jb 6:8; 8:13; 17:15b (but read טוֹבָתִי 𝔊 Me Bi Siegf Beer Bu Du), 27:8 ψ 9:19 Pr 10:28; 11:7, 23; 23:18; 24:14 (del. Toy as gloss); אַחֲרִית וְת׳ Je 29:11 (i. e. by hendiadys, the hoped-for future).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 31 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: hope (27); \[the\] hope (2); \[is the\] hope (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 10:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.28/#tree)

תּוֹחֶ֣לֶת צַדִּיקִ֣ים שִׂמְחָ֑ה וְתִקְוַ֖ת רְשָׁעִ֣ים תֹּאבֵֽד׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].hope of.righteous.\[people\] \[is\].joy and.\[the\] hope of.wicked.\[people\] it.is.lost

*JPS 1917:* The hope of the righteous is gladness; but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

[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.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8615.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8615/): 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).