Hebrew noun (feminine) · H8615
תִּקְוָה
tiqvahtik-vaw'
cord; hope
34 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tiqvâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8615is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 10 of 39Old Testament books
- 21spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8615
literally a cord (as an attachment); figuratively, expectancy
The King James renders it: expectation(-ted), hope, live, thing that I long for.
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
tiqvah is rendered "cord; hope". It stands 34 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.
- Thirteen of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "cord".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Joshua 2:18unless, when we enter the land, you have tied this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you have brought your father and mother and brothers and all your family into your house.
- The Greek text spells it twenty-one different ways.
The first use
unless, when we enter the land, you have tied this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you have brought your father and mother and brothers and all your family into your house.
Joshua 2:18תִּקְוַ֡ת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Thirteen of the word's thirty-four uses are in Job.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: cord, and hope.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| cordStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereJoshua 2:18unless, when we enter the land, you have tied this scarlet cord in the window through which you… |
| hopeStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- hope12
- hope my4
- and hope of3
- hope of3
- and hope my2
- and hope your2
- cord of2
- and a hope1
- and hope their1
- hope her1
- hope our1
- hope your1
and 1 more, 34 uses in all
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.
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 34, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
21 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
- תִּקְוָ֑ה5
- וְתִקְוַ֖ת3
- וְ֝תִקְוָתִ֗י2
- וְ֝תִקְוָתְךָ֗2
- תִּקְוָ֖ה2
- תִּקְוָֽה׃2
- תִּקְוַ֥ת2
- תִקְוָתִ֑י2
- תִּקְוָתִֽי׃2
- הַתִּקְוָ֑ה1
- וְתִקְוָֽה׃1
- וְ֝תִקְוָתָ֗ם1
and 9 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular12HNcfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)5HNcfsc
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular4HNcfsc/Sp1bs
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HC/Ncfsc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HC/Ncfsc/Sp1bs
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular2HC/Ncfsc/Sp2ms
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular1HC/Ncfsa
- 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 plural1HNcfsc/Sp1bp
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HNcfsc/Sp2ms
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HNcfsc/Sp3fs
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1HTd/Ncfsa
Joshua
two uses
unless, when we enter the land, you have tied this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you have brought your father and mother and brothers and all your family into your house.
- תִּקְוַ֡תtikvatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: cord of
“Let it be as you say,” she replied, and she sent them away. And when they had gone, she tied the scarlet cord in the window.
- תִּקְוַ֥תtikvatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: cord of
Ruth
one use
Return home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons,
- תִקְוָ֔הtikvahnoun · feminine singulartagged: hope
Job
thirteen uses
Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?
- תִּ֝קְוָתְךָ֗tikvatechanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: hope your
So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.
- תִּקְוָ֑הtikvahnoun · feminine singulartagged: hope
If only my request were granted and God would fulfill my hope:
- וְ֝תִקְוָתִ֗יvetikvaticonjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and hope my
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
- תִּקְוָֽה׃tikvahnoun · feminine singulartagged: hope
Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.
- וְתִקְוַ֖תvetikvatconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and hope of
You will be secure, because there is hope, and you will look around and lie down in safety.
- תִּקְוָ֑הtikvahnoun · feminine singulartagged: hope
But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”
- וְ֝תִקְוָתָ֗םvetikvatamconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and hope their
For there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not fail.
- תִּ֫קְוָ֥הtikvahnoun · feminine singulartagged: hope
as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope.
- וְתִקְוַ֖תvetikvatconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and hope of
where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
- תִקְוָתִ֑יtikvatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: hope my
- וְ֝תִקְוָתִ֗יvetikvaticonjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and hope my
He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.
- תִּקְוָתִֽי׃tikvatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: hope my
For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
- תִּקְוַ֣תtikvatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: hope of
Psalms
three uses
For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.
- תִּקְוַ֥תtikvatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: hope of
Rest in God alone, O my soul, for my hope comes from Him.
- תִּקְוָתִֽי׃tikvatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: hope my
For You are my hope, O Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.
- תִקְוָתִ֑יtikvatinoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: hope my
Proverbs
eight uses
The hope of the righteous is joy, but the expectations of the wicked will perish.
- וְתִקְוַ֖תvetikvatconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and hope of
When the wicked man dies, his hope perishes, and the hope of his strength vanishes.
- תִּקְוָ֑הtikvahnoun · feminine singulartagged: hope
The desire of the righteous leads only to good, but the hope of the wicked brings wrath.
- תִּקְוַ֖תtikvatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: hope of
Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be party to his death.
- תִּקְוָ֑הtikvahnoun · feminine singulartagged: hope
For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
- וְ֝תִקְוָתְךָ֗vetikvatechaconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and hope your
Know therefore that wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, there is a future for you, and your hope will never be cut off.
- וְ֝תִקְוָתְךָ֗vetikvatechaconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and hope your
Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
- תִּקְוָ֖הtikvahnoun · feminine singulartagged: hope
Do you see a man who speaks in haste? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
- תִּקְוָ֖הtikvahnoun · feminine singulartagged: hope
Jeremiah
two uses
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.
- וְתִקְוָֽה׃vetikvahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a hope
So there is hope for your future, declares the LORD, and your children will return to their own land.
- תִּקְוָ֥הtikvahnoun · feminine singulartagged: hope
Lamentations
one use
Let him bury his face in the dust—perhaps there is still hope.
- תִּקְוָֽה׃tikvahnoun · feminine singulartagged: hope
Ezekiel
two uses
When she saw that she had waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.
- תִּקְוָתָ֑הּtikvatahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: hope her
Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’
- תִקְוָתֵ֖נוּtikvatenunoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: hope our
Hosea
one use
There I will give back her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.
- תִּקְוָ֑הtikvahnoun · feminine singulartagged: hope
Zechariah
one use
Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; even today I declare that I will restore to you double.
- הַתִּקְוָ֑הhatikvahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the hope
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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.