Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H1942
הַוָּה
hav.vah · “desire”
Used 16 times across 4 books
Definition
1) desire
1a) desire (in bad sense)
2) chasm (fig. of destruction)
2a) engulfing ruin, destruction, calamity
1a) desire (in bad sense)
2) chasm (fig. of destruction)
2a) engulfing ruin, destruction, calamity
Where it appears
Job3
Psalms8
Proverbs4
Micah1
In the text
Job 6:2Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!Job 6:30Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?Job 30:13They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.Psalms 5:10Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.Psalms 38:13But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.Psalms 52:4Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.Psalms 52:9I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.Psalms 55:12For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:Psalms 57:2I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.Psalms 91:3Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
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