חֶמְדָּה
chemdâh · H2532 · Hebrew · 16 occurrences
Meanings
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desire
Human or deity that is the object of someone else's desire
Examples1 Samuel 9:20 “And as for your donkeys that wandered off three days ago, do not be concerned about them, for they have been found. And for whom is everything that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for you and for all your father’s household?”
2 Chronicles 21:20 He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for eight years; and he departed with no one’s regret, and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
Daniel 11:37 “And he will show no regard for the gods of his fathers or for the desire of women, nor will he show regard for any other god; for he will boast against them all.
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value, preciousness, quality
State in which objects have such a high quality, that they provoke in others the desire to possess them
Examples2 Chronicles 32:27 Now Hezekiah had immense riches and honor; and he made for himself treasuries for silver, gold, precious stones, spices, shields, and all kinds of valuable articles,
2 Chronicles 36:10 At the turn of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent men and had him brought to Babylon with the valuable articles of the house of the LORD; and he made his relative Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.
Psalm 106:24 Then they rejected the pleasant land; They did not believe His word,
How it’s used In 6 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
7 occurrences in 7 groups
- בַּיִתhouse, household 1
- גּוֹיnation, people 1
- יִשְׂרָאֵלIsrael 1
- אִשָּׁהwoman, wife 1
- יmy 1
- ךְyour 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 2 groups
- זָהָבgold 1
- כֶּסֶףsilver 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִיwho? 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- בin/on/with 2
- עַלon, upon, over, against 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
12 occurrences in 5 groups
- כְּלִיvessel, utensil, weapon 6
- אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 3
- בַּיִתhouse, household 1
- חֶלְקָהportion 1
- שְׂכִיָּהship 1
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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Near synonyms 4 words
- רָצוֹן râtsôwn · H7522 · acceptance, favor
- Both words denote desires or wishes; חֶמְדָּה emphasizes the object desired or its desirability, while רָצוֹן emphasizes favor, acceptance or will, so they are distinct Hebrew words that can function as near-synonyms in contexts of desire or wish.
- מַאֲוַי maʼăvay · H3970 · desire, longing
- Both words denote "desire," in the sense of something wished for or desirable; חֶמְדָּה (chemdâh, H2532) has a broader range (goodly, pleasant, precious), but "desire" is its core sense and overlaps directly with מַאֲוַי (maʼăvay, H3970), glossed simply "desire."
- תְּשׁוּקָה tᵉshûwqâh · H8669 · to turn one's attention to, to be enraptured by, to concentrate one's energy on
- Both words relate to desire; חֶמְדָּה (chemdâh, H2532) has a broader range (also “goodly, pleasant, precious”), while תְּשׁוּקָה (tᵉshûwqâh, H8669) is more narrowly focused on desire itself and occurs only three times.
- חֵשֶׁק chêsheq · H2837 · desire, long
- Both lexemes are genuine desire/wish nouns with overlapping senses ("desire") that could plausibly function as near-synonyms in context. This is a real candidate for same-language near-synonymy.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Wish002004002001001
- The word denotes something desired or coveted, sharing the desiring sense of the related verb for coveting a valued object.
- Good002001001031
- The word describes something pleasant or precious in quality, matching the related adjective's sense of goodly or desirable things.
- Great002001002012
- The word can denote something especially excellent or highly prized, marking a valued object as outstanding among its kind.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2532. chemdah חֶמְדָּה noun feminine id. — ׳ח Hos 13:15 Hos 13:8t.; construct חֶמְדַּת…
חֶמְדָּה noun feminine id. — ׳ח Hos 13:15 Hos 13:8t.; construct חֶמְדַּת 1Sa 9:20 1Sa 9:3t.; suffix חֶמְדָּתִי Jer 12:10; חֶמְדָּתֵךְ Eze 26:12; חֶמְדָּתָם Dan 11:8; — desire of Israel 1Sa 9:20 followed by לְ before object of desire; ח ׳בְּלֹא = without desire2Ch 21:20 (i.e. he lived as no one desired), see Öttli ᵐ5 (not ᵐ5L) ᵑ9; concrete: ׳כלחֿ ישׂראל 1Sa 9:20 and for whom is all that is desirable in Israel? so ᵑ9 ᵐ5 RV Dr; (>AV and on whom is all the desire of Israel?); compare ח ׳ובאו כלהֿגוים Hag 2:7 (i.e. the desirable, precious things of all nations); elsewhere after construct as חֶמֶד; especially ח ׳כלי Hos 13:15; Nah 2:10; Jer 25:34; 2Ch 32:27; 2Ch 36:10; Dan 11:8; ח ׳שְׂכִיּוֺת Isa 2:16, ח ׳אֶרֶץ Psa 106:24; Jer 3:19; Zec 7:14, compare ח ׳חֶלְקַת Jer 12:10; ח ׳בתי Eze 26:12; ׳ח נשׁים Dan 11:37, apparently reference to some object of idolatrous worship, perhaps Adonis = Tammuz Ew Bev (Astarte, Meinh).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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