Hebrew noun (feminine) · H8431
תּוֹחֶלֶת
tochelethto-kheh'-leth
hope
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tôwcheleth
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8431is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8431
expectation
The King James renders it: hope.
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
tocheleth is rendered "hope". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Three of the uses stand in Proverbs, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 41:9Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?
Job 41:9תֹּחַלְתּ֥וֹ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's six uses are in Proverbs.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and hope my1
- and hope of1
- hope1
- hope his1
- hope my1
- hope of1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| תּוֹרָה | torah | instruction | Uses219 |
| תּוֹעֵבַה | toebah | abomination | Uses117 |
| תּוֹלָע | tola | worm | Uses43 |
| תּוֹלְדָה | toledah | generation | Uses39 |
| תּוֹדָה | todah | thanksgiving | Uses31 |
| תּוֹכֵחָה | tokechah | rebuke | Uses28 |
| תּוֹצָאָה | totsaah | outgoing | Uses23 |
| תּוֹר | tor | turtledove | Uses14 |
| תּוֹשָׁב | toshab | sojourner | Uses14 |
| תּוֹר | tor | bullock | Uses7 |
| תּוֹר | tor | plait | Uses4 |
| תּוֹעָפָה | toaphah | peak | Uses4 |
and 6 more on the stem.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- תּוֹחֶ֣לֶת2
- וְתוֹחֶ֖לֶת1
- וְתוֹחַלְתִּ֖י1
- תּ֝וֹחַלְתִּ֗י1
- תֹּחַלְתּ֥וֹ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcfsc
- 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
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HNcfsc/Sp1bs
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcfsc/Sp3ms
Job
one use
Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?
- תֹּחַלְתּ֥וֹtochaltonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: hope his
Psalms
one use
And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.
- תּ֝וֹחַלְתִּ֗יtochaltinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: hope my
Proverbs
three uses
The hope of the righteous is joy, but the expectations of the wicked will perish.
- תּוֹחֶ֣לֶתtocheletnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: hope of
When the wicked man dies, his hope perishes, and the hope of his strength vanishes.
- וְתוֹחֶ֖לֶתvetocheletconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and hope of
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
- תּוֹחֶ֣לֶתtocheletnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: hope
Lamentations
one use
So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
- וְתוֹחַלְתִּ֖יvetochalticonjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and hope my
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 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.