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# תְּשׁוּקָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8669

**longing** — used 3 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

longing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8669/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תְּשׁוּקָה: n.f. longing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8669/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. longing;—of woman for man, אֶל־אִישֵׁךְ תְּשׁוּקָתֵךְ Gn 3:16 (J); of man for woman, אֲנִי לְדוֹדִי וְאֵלַי תְּשׁוּקָתוֹ Ct 7:11; of beast to devour, fig. אֵלֶיךָ תְּשׁוּקָתוֹ Gn 4:7 (J). (𝔊 ἀποστροφή Gn, ἐπιστροφή Ct, whence NesMarg. 6 proposes תְּשׁוּבָתֵךְ Gn 3:16, which Ball Hpt reads in all; but how explain the unusual and striking word in MT?).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: desire (3).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 7:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.11/#tree)

אֲנִ֣י לְדוֹדִ֔י וְעָלַ֖י תְּשׁוּקָתֽוֹ׃ס

*Word for word:* I \[belong\].to lover my and.\[is\] towards me desire his

*JPS 1917:* I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.

[Genesis 4:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.7/#tree)

הֲל֤וֹא אִם־תֵּיטִיב֙ שְׂאֵ֔ת וְאִם֙ לֹ֣א תֵיטִ֔יב לַפֶּ֖תַח חַטָּ֣את רֹבֵ֑ץ וְאֵלֶ֙יךָ֙ תְּשׁ֣וּקָת֔וֹ וְאַתָּ֖ה תִּמְשָׁל־בּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* ? not if you.will.do.well lifting.up and if not you.will.do.well to the door sin \[is\].crouching and.\[is\] to you desire its and you you.will.rule over it

*JPS 1917:* If thou doest well, shall it not be lifted up? and if thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door; and unto thee is its desire, but thou mayest rule over it.'

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8669/): 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).