Cord
תִּקְוָהStrong’s H8615tiqvah (tiq-vah)
Appears in 33 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tiqvah is the Hebrew word usually translated “hope”, “hope my” and “hope of”. It appears in 33 verses of the Old Testament.
“Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;”
Meaning
- Cord
- Hope, expectationhope · ground of hope · things hoped for, outcome
How it's translated
- hope 13
- hope my 4
- and hope of 3
- hope of 3
- cord of 2
- and hope my 2
- and hope your 2
- hope your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 12
- Proverbs 8
- Psalms 3
- Joshua 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Ezekiel 2
10 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 2:18Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father’s household, home unto thee.
- Joshua 2:21And she said, According unto your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.
- Ruth 1:12Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;
- Job 4:6Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
- Job 5:16So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
- Job 6:8Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Hebrew dictionary
תִּקְוָה tiqvah · cord
cord
תִּקְוָה tiqvah · hope
1) hope, expectation 1a) hope 1b) ground of hope 1c) things hoped for, outcome
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cord” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CORD, noun
[Latin Gr. According to the Welsh, this word signifies a twist, from cor, the root of chorus.]
- A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together. Joshua 2:15
- A quantity of wood, or other material, originally measured with a cord or line.
- In scripture, the cords of the wicked are the snares with which they catch the unwary. Psalms 129:4
All definitions and other forms of “cord”
CORD, verb transitive
- To bind with a cord or rope; to fasten with cords.
- To pile wood or other material for measurement and sale by the cord
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.