Hebrew noun (feminine) · H1942
הַוָּה
havvahhav-vaw'
desire
16 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: havvâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1942is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1942
by implication, of falling); desire; also ruin
The King James renders it: calamity, iniquity, mischief, mischievous (thing), naughtiness, naughty, noisome, perverse thing, substance, very wickedness.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
havvah is rendered "desire". It stands 16 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Eight of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 6:2“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
Job 6:2וְ֝הַוָּתִ֗י
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- destructions10
- and by craving of1
- and craving of1
- and destruction my1
- craving of1
- in destruction his1
- to destruction my1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 16, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַוּֽוֹת׃3
- הַוּ֑וֹת2
- בְּהַוָּתֽוֹ׃1
- הַ֫וּ֥וֹת1
- הַ֭וּוֹת1
- הַוּ֥וֹת1
- הַוַּ֥ת1
- הַוֹּ֣ת1
- הַוֹּֽת׃1
- וּ֝בְהַוַּ֗ת1
- וְהַוַּ֖ת1
- וְ֝הַוָּתִ֗י1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine plural10HNcfpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncfsc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HC/Ncfsc/Sp1bs
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/R/Ncfsc
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfsc
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HR/Ncfsc/Sp1bs
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HR/Ncfsc/Sp3ms
Job
three uses
“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
- וְ֝הַוָּתִ֗יvehaiyaticonjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and destruction my
Is there iniquity on my tongue? Can my mouth not discern malice?
- הַוּֽוֹת׃havotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: destructions
They tear up my path; they profit from my destruction, with no one to restrain them.
- לְהַוָּתִ֥יlehavatipreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: to destruction my
Psalms
eight uses
For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.
- הַ֫וּ֥וֹתhavotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: destructions
Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.
- הַוּ֑וֹתhavotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: destructions
Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
- הַ֭וּוֹתhavotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: destructions
“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”
- בְּהַוָּתֽוֹ׃behavatopreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: in destruction his
Destruction is within; oppression and deceit never leave the streets.
- הַוּ֥וֹתhavotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: destructions
Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy, for in You my soul takes refuge. In the shadow of Your wings I will take shelter until the danger has passed.
- הַוּֽוֹת׃havotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: destructions
Surely He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly plague.
- הַוּֽוֹת׃havotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: destructions
Can a corrupt throne be Your ally— one devising mischief by decree?
- הַוּ֑וֹתhavotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: destructions
Proverbs
four uses
The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry, but He denies the craving of the wicked.
- וְהַוַּ֖תvehavatconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and craving of
The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the faithless are trapped by their own desires.
- וּ֝בְהַוַּ֗תuvehavatconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and by craving of
A wicked man listens to evil lips; a liar gives ear to a destructive tongue.
- הַוֹּֽת׃havotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: destructions
A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.
- הַוֹּ֣תhavotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: destructions
Micah
one use
Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.
- הַוַּ֥תhavatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: craving of
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.