Boundary
תַּאֲוָהStrong’s H8379taavah (ta-a-vah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Taavah is the Hebrew word usually translated “desire of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.”
Meaning
- Boundary, limitmeaning uncertain
How it's translated
- desire of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
תַּאֲוָה taavah · boundary
1) boundary, limit 1a) meaning uncertain
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “boundary” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BOUND'ARY, noun
A limit; a bound. This word is thus used as synonymous with bound. But the real sense is, a visible mark designating a limit. Bound is the limit itself or furthest point of extension, and may be an imaginary line; but boundary is the thing which ascertains the limit; terminus, not finis. Thus by a statute of Connecticut, it is enacted that the inhabitants of every town shall procure its bounds to be set out by such marks and boundaries as may be a plain direction for the future; which marks and boundaries shall be a great heap of stones or a ditch of six feet long, etc. This distinction is observed also in the statute of Massachusetts. But the two words are, in ordinary use, confounded.
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.