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Strong's #8378 - תַּאֲוָה
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- desire
- desire, wish, longings of one´s heart
- lust, appetite, covetousness (bad sense)
- thing desired, object of desire
- desire, wish, longings of one´s heart
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1005) ea (אה AH) AC: Sigh CO: Sigher AB: Where: The pictograph a represents strength of the ox. The e is one looking at a great sight and sighing. Combined they mean "a strong sigh". This can be a sigh when searching as when the ox snorts when desiring food. This root is closely related to ae. (eng: ah; woe)
A) ea (אה AH) AC: Sigh CO: ? AB: ?: The howling of one searching.
Nm) ea (אה AH) - Ah: The sigh of one in exclamation out of a desire. [df: xa ya] KJV (4): ah, alas, woe - Strongs: H253 (אָח), H337 (אִי), H338 (אִי)
B) eea (אהה AHH) AC: Sigh CO: ? AB: ?: A screaming out of pain.
Nm) eea (אהה AHH) - Ah: KJV (15): ah, alas - Strongs: H162 (אֲהָהּ)
D) eai (יאה YAH) AC: Desire CO: ? AB: ?: Rightful ownership of what is desired.
V) eai (יאה YAH) - Belong: KJV (1): (vf: Paal) appertain - Strongs: H2969 (יָאָה)
J) efa (אוה AWH) AC: Sigh CO: ? AB: Desire: A sigh out of a desire.
V) efa (אוה AWH) - Desire: KJV (26): (vf: Hitpael, Piel) desire, longing, covet, lust, point out - Strongs: H183 (אָוָה)
if1) efat (תאוה TAWH) - Desire: What is good or bad, that is desired. KJV (20): desire, lust, greedily - Strongs: H8378 (תַּאֲוָה)
M) eia (איה AYH) AC: ? CO: Hawk AB: ?: A bird that flies high searching for food and screeches as a loud sigh.
Nf) eia (איה AYH) - Hawk: KJV (3): kite, vulture - Strongs: H344 (אַיָּה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
proper name given to place where it occurred קִבְרוֺת הַתַּאֲוָה (q. v.) Numbers 11:34,35; Numbers 33:16,17; Deuteronomy 9:22.
2 thing desired, in good sense Proverbs 10:24; bad sense Psalm 78:29 so לִבּוֺ׳ת Psalm 21:3; thing desirable (to senses) Genesis 3:6 (לְעֵינַיִם׳ת); perhaps also Proverbs 19:22 the ornament of a man is his kindness (Ra Ki, etc. but compare above)
תַּאֲוָה f. (from the root אָוַה No. I)
(1) desire, longing, whether good and just, Psalms 10:17, 21:3 or wicked, Psalms 112:10.
(2) in a bad sense, lust, desire (Luft, Gelüft). Numbers 11:4, הִתְאַוּוּ תַּאֲוָה “they lusted a lust.” Psal. 78:29, 30 Psalms 78:30. קִבְרוֹת הַתַּאֲוָה the graves of lust, Numbers 11:34, 35 Numbers 11:35.
(3) delight, object of desire. מַאֲכַל תַּאְוָה food of delight, i.e. delicate, Job 33:20; Genesis 3:6 also, honour, ornament, Genesis 49:26; Proverbs 19:22.