חֵשֶׁק
chêsheq · H2837 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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desire, long
State in which humans experience a desire for a particular event to take place
Examples1 Kings 9:1 Now it came about when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the king’s house, and all that Solomon desired to do,
1 Kings 9:19 and all the storage cities which Solomon had, that is, the cities for his chariots and the cities for his horsemen, and everything that it pleased Solomon to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land under his rule.
2 Chronicles 8:6 and Baalath and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots and cities for his horsemen, and everything that it pleased Solomon to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and all the land under his rule.
How it’s used In 4 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
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- שְׁלֹמֹהSolomon 3
- יmy 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- חָשַׁקto love, to set one's desire on 2
- חָפֵץto like, to be pleased, to desire 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בָּנָהto build, to rebuild, to establish 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נֶשֶׁףtwilight 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 9 words
- מַחְמָד machmâd · H4261 · object of desire, attractiveness, beauty
- Both lexemes denote objects of desire or pleasure — things that are desired, delightful, or pleasant.
- רָצוֹן râtsôwn · H7522 · acceptance, favor
- Both words denote desire, pleasure and delight as core senses; they are distinct words that overlap in meaning and could substitute for each other in appropriate contexts.
- תַּאֲוָה taʼăvâh · H8378 · craving, desire, longing
- Both words denote desire or longing, and function as near-synonyms in the same sphere of volitional and emotional appetite, with overlapping core sense.
- תִּקְוָה tiqvâh · H8615 · cord, hope
- Both lexemes genuinely occupy the same semantic space of longing/desire/wish and could plausibly substitute in context (one who has חֵשֶׁק/desire for something vs. one who has תִּקְוָה/hope for something).
- חֵפֶץ chêphets · H2656 · pleasure, desire
- Both words overlap in the sense of desire and pleasure, and are distinct Hebrew words with overlapping meaning (delight, desire, pleasure) that could substitute for each other in context.
- אַוָּה ʼavvâh · H185 · desire, craving, lust
- Both words are distinct words for overlapping affective and volitional states, desire, craving and lust.
- חֶמְדָּה chemdâh · H2532 · desire, value, preciousness
- 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.
- תַּאֲבָה taʼăbâh · H8375 · longing, desire
- Both lexemes are nouns denoting internal states of wanting or desiring.
- תְּשׁוּקָה tᵉshûwqâh · H8669 · to turn one's attention to, to be enraptured by, to concentrate one's energy on
- Both words denote desire, expressing overlapping senses of wanting or longing.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- חֵשֶׁק names a desire or pleasure, used of everything Solomon desired to build throughout his kingdom (1 Kings 9:1, 19).
Word family 12 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2837. chesheq חֵ֫שֶׁק noun masculine desire = thing desired — construct שְׁלֹמֹה חֵשֶׁק…
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
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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