Hebrew verb · H5689
עֲגַב
agabaw-gab'
to lust
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻăgab
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5689is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5689
to breathe after, i.e. to love (sensually)
The King James renders it: dote, lover.
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
agab is rendered "to lust". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Six of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Jeremiah 4:30And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life.
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life.
Jeremiah 4:30עֹגְבִ֖ים
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
- and she lusted3
- lovers1
- she had lusted1
- she lusted1
- she lusted after1
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 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 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
- וַתַּעְגַּב֙1
- וַתַּעְגְּבָ֥ה1
- וַֽתַּעְגְּבָ֔ה1
- עָֽגְבָ֛ה1
- עָגְבָ֖ה1
- עָגָ֜בָה1
- עֹגְבִ֖ים1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular3HVqp3fs
- Hc/Vqw3fs/Sh2Hc/Vqw3fs/Sh
- Hc/Vqw3fs1Hc/Vqw3fs
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural1HVqrmpa
Jeremiah
one use
And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life.
- עֹגְבִ֖יםʾogevimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: lovers
Ezekiel
six uses
Oholah prostituted herself while she was still Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors
- וַתַּעְגַּב֙vata'gavHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she lusted
She offered sexual favors to all the elite of Assyria. She defiled herself with all the idols of those for whom she lusted.
- עָֽגְבָ֛הʾagevahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she lusted after
Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, the Assyrians for whom she lusted.
- עָגְבָ֖הʾagevahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she had lusted
She too lusted after the Assyrians—governors and commanders, warriors dressed in splendor, horsemen riding on steeds, all desirable young men.
- עָגָ֜בָהʾagavahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she lusted
At the sight of them, she lusted for them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
- וַתַּעְגְּבָ֥הvata'gavhHc/Vqw3fs/Shtagged: and she lusted
and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.
- וַֽתַּעְגְּבָ֔הvata'gevahHc/Vqw3fs/Shtagged: and she lusted
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.