To crave
אָכַףStrong’s H0404akhaph (a-khaph)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Akhaph is the Hebrew word usually translated “it presses”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.”
Meaning
- Press, urge, bend(Qal)
How it's translated
- it presses 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
אָכַף akhaph · to crave
1) press, urge, bend 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to crave
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “crave” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CRAVE, verb transitive
- To ask with earnestness or importunity; to beseech; to implore; to ask with submission or humility, as a dependent; to beg; to entreat.“Joseph--went in boldly to Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus” Mark 15:43
- To call for, as a gratification; to long for; to require or demand, as a passion or appetite; as, the stomach or appetite craves food.
- Sometimes intransitively, with for before the thing sought; as, I crave for mercy.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.