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Strong's #8374 - תָּאַב
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1) (Piel) to loathe, abhor
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1485) bt (תב TB) AC: ? CO: Long AB: ?
D) bat (תאב TAB) AC: ? CO: Long AB: ?
V) bat (תאב TAB) - I. Long:To long for something. II. Abhor:KJV (3): (vf: Paal, Piel) long, abhor - Strongs: H8373 (תָּאַב), H8374 (תָּאַב)
Nf1) ebat (תאבה TABH) - Longing: A longing for something. KJV (1): longing - Strongs: H8375 (תַּאֲבָה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
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..