מַאֲוַי
maʼăvay · H3970 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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desire, longing
State of experiencing a desire to see something happen or do something oneself
ExamplesPsalm 140:8 “Do not grant, LORD, the desires of the wicked; Do not bring about his evil planning, so that they are not exalted. Selah
How it’s used In 2 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רָשָׁעwicked 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 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 5 words
- חֶמְדָּה chemdâh · H2532 · desire, value, preciousness
- 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 the target term's sole meaning. The target term occurs only once.
- אֲרֶשֶׁת ʼăresheth · H782 · request
- Both the target term ('desire') and אֲרֶשֶׁת (ʼăresheth, H782) ('request') are near-synonyms in the semantic field of wishing, since desire and request are closely related concepts that can overlap in sense. Both words are rare (each attested only once), so the pairing, while plausible, is evidentially thin.
- תְּשׁוּקָה tᵉshûwqâh · H8669 · to turn one's attention to, to be enraptured by, to concentrate one's energy on
- Both words denote 'desire' and could substitute for one another in appropriate contexts; they are two Hebrew words for desire with clear semantic overlap.
- רָצוֹן râtsôwn · H7522 · acceptance, favor
- Both words denote desire, wish or pleasure and could substitute for one another in sense. The target term is extremely rare, attested only once.
- תַּאֲבָה taʼăbâh · H8375 · longing, desire
- Both the target term ('desire') and תַּאֲבָה (taʼăbâh, H8375) ('longing') are genuine abstract nouns for wanting or wishing, and represent overlapping near-synonymous senses in the same semantic space — both could substitute for one another in expressing wish or yearning. Both words occur only once each, so while the overlap is genuine, it rests mainly on shared gloss content.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Wish002004002001001
- מַאֲוַי denotes desire, as in 2 Samuel 23:5's "all my desire and my need," placing it among terms for wanting or longing for something.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3970. maavay [מַאֲוַי] noun [masculine] desire plural construct רָשָׁע מַאֲוַיֵּי Psa…
[מַאֲוַי] noun [masculine] desire plural construct רָשָׁע מַאֲוַיֵּי Psa 140:9.
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
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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