Attentive
קַשָּׁבStrong’s H7183qashshav (qash-shav)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qashshav is the Hebrew word usually translated “attentive”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.”
Meaning
- Attentive
How it's translated
- attentive 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Nehemiah 2
- Psalms 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Chronicles 7:15Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.
- Nehemiah 1:6Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father’s house have sinned.
- Nehemiah 1:11O LORD, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king’s cupbearer.
- Psalms 130:2Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.
Hebrew dictionary
קַשָּׁב qashshav · attentive
attentive Another spelling of qash.shuv (קַשֻּׁב "attentive" H7183B)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “attentive” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ATTENT'IVE, adjective
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.