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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary

Strong's #8373 - תָּאַב

Transliteration

tâ'ab

Phonetics

taw-ab'

Origin

a primitive root

Parts of Speech

Verb

TWOT

2485

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

1) (Qal) to long for

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Frequency Lists

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KJV (2)

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NAS (2)

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HCS (2)

Psalms

BSB (2)

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ESV (2)

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WEB (2)

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Verse Results

Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions

1485) b t (תב TB) AC: ? CO: Long AB: ?

D) b a t (תאב TAB) AC: ? CO: Long AB: ?

V) b a t (תאב TAB) - I. Long:To long for something. II. Abhor:KJV (3): (vf: Paal, Piel) long, abhor - Strongs: H8373 (תָּאַב), H8374 (תָּאַב)

N^f1) e b a t (תאבה TABH) - Longing: A longing for something. KJV (1): longing - Strongs: H8375 (תַּאֲבָה)

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

תָּאַב to desire, to long for, followed by לְ Psalms 119:40, 174 Psalms 119:174. Of more frequent occurrence in Chaldee. (To this answer אָבָה, אָוָה, and this root may seem to be secondary, and taken from the Hithpael of those verbs.)

Derivative, תַּאֲבָה.

II.

תָּאַב only found in part. Piel מְתָאֵב i.q. מְתָעֵב abhorring, Amos 6:8 the letters ע and א being interchanged in the Aramean manner, see p..

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List of Word Forms

תָּאַ֣בְתִּי תאבתי tā’aḇtî tā·’aḇ·tî taAvti

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