אָוָה
ʼâvâh · aw-vaw'
to wish for
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to wish for
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: covet, (greatly) desire, be desirous, long, lust (after).
Letters
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
strength, the leader › to fasten and establish › to reveal, behold
Strength, the leader that works to fasten and establish that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of אָוָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
26 occurrences · 26 OT · 0 NT · 23 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- desireth6 · 23%
- longed2 · 8%
- neither desire2 · 8%
- them fell a lusting1 · 4%
- that lusted1 · 4%
- neither shalt thou covet1 · 4%
- longeth1 · 4%
- lusteth after1 · 4%
- greatly desire1 · 4%
- but lusted1 · 4%
- he hath desired1 · 4%
- for i have desired1 · 4%
- he coveteth1 · 4%
- be not desirous1 · 4%
- of all that he desireth1 · 4%
- have i desired1 · 4%
- thee: neither have i desired1 · 4%
- unto you that desire1 · 4%
- desired1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.