עֶגֶב
ʻegeb · H5690 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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lust
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 33:31 “And they come to you as people come, and sit before you as My people and hear your words, but they do not do them; for they do the lustful desires expressed by their mouth, and their heart follows their unlawful gain.
Ezekiel 33:32 “And behold, you are to them like a love song by one who has a beautiful voice and plays well on an instrument; for they hear your words but they do not practice them.
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
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שִׁירsong 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 1 word
- עֵדֶן ʻêden · H5730 · pleasure, desire, joy
- Both words denote positive emotional or aesthetic qualities in the range of desire, pleasure and delight. "Much love, very lovely" and "delicate, delight, pleasure" overlap in affective range and could substitute in contexts describing what is desirable or delightful.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Desire002004001001001
- עֲגָבָה denotes lustful or inordinate desire, illustrated at Ezekiel 33:31-32 ("their heart goes after their gain... your lustful desires"), where the term names a wrongly-directed longing rather than a legitimate affection.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5690. agab [עָגָב] noun [masculine] (sensuous) love (on form compare LagBN 143); — only…
[עָגָב] noun [masculine] (sensuous) love (on form compare LagBN 143); — only plural intensive עֲגָבֹים שִׁיר Eze 33:32 thou art to them as a love-song. — For עֲגָבִים Eze 33:31 read ᵑ6 ᵐ5 כְּזָבִים Co Berthol Toy.
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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