עֲגַב
ʻăgab · H5689 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences
Meanings
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to lust after, lusting after
State in which humans experience the physical desire to have sex with someone else; used in the metaphoric sense of associating with foreign nations, including their idols
ExamplesEzekiel 23:5 “Oholah prostituted herself while she was Mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians, her neighbors,
Ezekiel 23:7 “She bestowed her obscene practices on them, all of whom were the choicest men of Assyria; and with all whom she lusted after, with all their idols she defiled herself.
Ezekiel 23:9 “Therefore, I handed her over to her lovers, to the Assyrians, after whom she lusted.
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lover
Person who is the object of one's physical desire to have sex with someone else
ExamplesJeremiah 4:30 And you, desolate one, what will you do? Although you dress in scarlet, Although you adorn yourself with jewelry of gold, Although you enlarge your eyes with makeup, In vain you make yourself beautiful. Your lovers despise you; They seek your life.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
6 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 6
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
5 occurrences in 5 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against+ הֶםthem 2
- אֵלto, toward+ בֵּןson 1
- עַלon, upon, over, against+ פִּילֶגֶשׁconcubine 1
- בin/on/with+ גִּלּוּלimage 1
- לto/for+ מַרְאֶהappearance, sight, vision 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מָאַסto reject, to despise 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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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Desire002004001001001
- One attested sense, to dote upon or lust after, as when Oholah is repeatedly said to have lusted after the Assyrians and their idols.
- People001001003
- The lovers themselves as the objects of that lust, as when Jerusalem's lovers turn against her and seek her life.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5689. agab [עָגַב] verb have inordinate affection, lust (compare Arabic wonder, admire,…
[עָגַב] verb have inordinate affection, lust (compare Arabic wonder, admire, beloved; and (on sens. obsc. in Late Hebrew) LevyNHWB iii. 616); —
Qal Perfect3feminine singular עָֽגְבָה Eze 23:7, Eze 23:9, Eze 23:12; Imperfect3feminine singular וַתַּעְגַּב Eze 23:5, + Eze 23:16 Kt (Qr וַתַּעְגְּבָה), וַתַּעְגְּבָּה Eze 23:20 (Ew§ 191 c Ol§ 228 b); Participle plural עֹגְבִים Jer 4:30; — lust after (עַלֿ), only in figure of relations of Samaria and Jerusalem (personified) with foreigners Eze 23:5, Eze 23:9, Eze 23:12, Eze 23:16, Eze 23:20, so with accusative Eze 23:7; participle as substantive paramours Jer 4:30.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 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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