To desire
חָשַׁקStrong’s H2836chashaq (cha-shaq)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chashaq is the Hebrew word usually translated “furnished with bands”, “loved” and “desired”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to love, be attached to, long for
- 1a) (Piel) fillet
How it's translated
- furnished with bands 2
- he loved 2
- he desired 2
- it loves 1
- and he furnished with bands 1
- and you will love 1
- he loves 1
- you loved 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 3
- Deuteronomy 3
- Genesis 1
- 1 Kings 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Psalms 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 27:17All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass.
- Exodus 38:17And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of their chapiters of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.
- Exodus 38:28And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them.
- Deuteronomy 7:7The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
- Deuteronomy 10:15Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
- Deuteronomy 21:11And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;
Hebrew dictionary
חָשַׁק chashaq · to desire
(Qal) to love, be attached to, long for
חָשַׁק chashaq · to connect
1a) (Piel) fillet 1b) (Pual) fillet
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.