Ta'avah

tah-av-aw'
Parts of Speech Noun Feminine

Ta'avah Definition

  1. desire
    1. desire, wish, longings of one's heart
      1. lust, appetite, covetousness (bad sense)
    2. thing desired, object of desire
Audio Pronunciation
Original Language
hwat
Origin
from (0183) (abbrev)
Strong's Number
08378
TDNT Entry
TWOT - 40d

KJV Word Usage

desire
13
lust
1
greedily
1
pleasent
1
misc.
4
Total
20

The Hebrew lexicon is Brown, Driver, Briggs, Gesenius Lexicon; this is keyed to the "Theological Word Book of the Old Testament." These files are considered public domain.

Brown, Driver, Briggs and Gesenius. "Hebrew Lexicon entry for Ta'avah". "The KJV Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon". . .