Hebrew noun (feminine) · H8378
תַּאֲוָה
taavahtah-av-aw'
desire
20 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: taʼăvâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8378is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 16spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8378
a longing; by implication, a delight (subjectively, satisfaction, objectively, a charm)
The King James renders it: dainty, desire, [idiom] exceedingly, [idiom] greedily, lust(ing), pleasant. See also H6914 (קִבְרוֹת הַתַּאֲוָה).
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
taavah is rendered "desire". It stands 20 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Eight of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 3:6When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
- The Greek text spells it sixteen different ways.
The first use
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
Genesis 3:6תַֽאֲוָה־
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
- desire of8
- a craving3
- a desire2
- a delight1
- and desire of1
- and desire their1
- desire1
- desire my1
- from desire their1
- to desire1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| תַּאֲנָה | taanah | estrous | Uses2 |
| תַּאֲנִיָּה | taaniah | mourning | Uses2 |
| תַּאֲבָה | taabah | longing | Uses1 |
| תַּאֲוָה | taavah | boundary | Uses1 |
| תַּאֲלָה | taalah | curse | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 20, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
16 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
- תַּאֲוַ֣ת5
- וְתַאֲוַ֖ת1
- וְ֝תַֽאֲוָתָ֗ם1
- לְֽ֭תַאֲוָה1
- מִתַּאֲוָתָ֑ם1
- תַ֭אֲוָה1
- תַאֲוָ֑ה1
- תַּאֲוָ֑ה1
- תַּאֲוָ֥ה1
- תַּאֲוָ֣ה1
- תַֽאֲוָה־1
- תַּאֲוָֽה׃1
and 4 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)8HNcfsc
- noun · feminine singular7HNcfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncfsc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HC/Ncfsc/Sp3mp
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HNcfsc/Sp1bs
- preposition + noun · feminine singular1HR/Ncfsa
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HR/Ncfsc/Sp3mp
Genesis
one use
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
- תַֽאֲוָה־taavah-noun · feminine singulartagged: a delight
Numbers
one use
Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?
- תַּאֲוָ֑הtaavahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a craving
Job
one use
so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food.
- תַּאֲוָֽה׃taavahnoun · feminine singulartagged: desire
Psalms
eight uses
For the wicked man boasts in the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.
- תַּאֲוַ֣תtaavatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: desire of
You have heard, O LORD, the desire of the humble; You will strengthen their hearts. You will incline Your ear,
- תַּאֲוַ֬תtaavatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: desire of
You have granted his heart’s desire and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah
- תַּאֲוַ֣תtaavatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: desire of
O Lord, my every desire is before You; my groaning is not hidden from You.
- תַּאֲוָתִ֑יtaavatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: desire my
So they ate and were well filled, for He gave them what they craved.
- וְ֝תַֽאֲוָתָ֗םvetaavatamconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and desire their
Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,
- מִתַּאֲוָתָ֑םmitaavatampreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: from desire their
They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.
- תַ֭אֲוָהtaavahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a craving
The wicked man will see and be grieved; he will gnash his teeth and waste away; the desires of the wicked will perish.
- תַּאֲוַ֖תtaavatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: desire of
Proverbs
eight uses
What the wicked man dreads will overtake him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
- וְתַאֲוַ֖תvetaavatconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and desire of
The desire of the righteous leads only to good, but the hope of the wicked brings wrath.
- תַּאֲוַ֣תtaavatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: desire of
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
- תַּאֲוָ֥הtaavahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a desire
Desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but turning from evil is detestable to fools.
- תַּאֲוָ֣הtaavahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a desire
He who isolates himself pursues selfish desires; he rebels against all sound judgment.
- לְֽ֭תַאֲוָהletaavahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: to desire
The desire of a man is loving devotion; better to be poor than a liar.
- תַּאֲוַ֣תtaavatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: desire of
The craving of the slacker kills him because his hands refuse to work.
- תַּאֲוַ֣תtaavatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: desire of
All day long he covets more, but the righteous give without restraint.
- תַאֲוָ֑הtaavahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a craving
Isaiah
one use
Yes, we wait for You, O LORD; we walk in the path of Your judgments. Your name and renown are the desire of our souls.
- תַּאֲוַת־taavat-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: desire 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.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.