אָבֶה
ʼâbeh · H15 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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would that...!
Exclamation expressing a wish
ExamplesJob 34:36 ‘Oh that Job were tested to the limit, Because he answers like sinners.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Evaluators004005
- אָבֶה functions as an interjection of wishing, "would that" or "oh that," expressing a speaker's evaluative wish about a situation.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H15. abeh [בַּי בָּיַי,] verb entreat (Arabic come as suppliant, entreat, still current…
[בַּי בָּיַי,] verb entreat (Arabic come as suppliant, entreat, still current in the Hauran: see Wetzst in DeJob 34:36), of which (probably) אָבִי Job 34:36 is 1 singular imperfect (used dialectically): אִיּוֺב יִבְּחֵן אָבִי would that (literally I entreat that) Job were tried!
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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