Desire
הַוָּהStrong’s H1942havvah (hav-vah)
Appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Havvah is the Hebrew word usually translated “destruction”, “destruction my” and “destruction his”. It appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament.
“Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!”
Meaning
- Desiredesire (in bad sense)
- Chasm (fig. of destruction)engulfing ruin, destruction, calamity
How it's translated
- destruction 10
- and destruction my 1
- to destruction my 1
- in destruction his 1
- and craving of 1
- and by craving of 1
- craving of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 8
- Proverbs 4
- Job 3
- Micah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 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 5:9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
- Psalms 38:12They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
- Psalms 52:2Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
- Psalms 52:7Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
Hebrew dictionary
הַוָּה havvah · desire
1) desire 1a) desire (in bad sense) 2) chasm (fig. of destruction) 2a) engulfing ruin, destruction, calamity
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “desire” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DESIRE, noun
- An emotion or excitement of the mind, directed to the attainment or possession of an object from which pleasure, sensual, intellectual or spiritual, is expected; a passion excited by the love of an object, or uneasiness at the want of it, and directed to its attainment or possession. desire is a wish to possess some gratification or source of happiness which is supposed to be obtainable.“We endeavored-to see your face with great desire” 1 Thessalonians 2:17“Thou satisfiest the desires of every living thing” Psalms 145:16
- A prayer or request to obtain:“He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him” Psalms 145:19
- The object of desire; that which is desired.“The desire of all nations shall come” Haggai 2:7
- Love; affection.“His desire is toward me” Song of Solomon 7:10
All definitions and other forms of “desire”
- Appetite; lust.“Fulfilling the desires of the flesh” Ephesians 2:3
DESIRE, verb transitive
- To wish for the possession or enjoyment of, with a greater or less degree of earnestness; to covet.“Neither shall any man desire thy land” Exodus 34:24“Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts” 1 Corinthians 14:1
- To express a wish to obtain; to ask; to request; to petition.“Then she said, did I desire a son of my Lord?” 2 Kings 4:28
- To require.
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.