עֲגָבָה
ʻăgâbâh · H5691 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
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 23:11 “Now her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lust than she, and her obscene practices were more than the prostitution of her sister.
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
- הּher 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שָׁחַתto destroy, to corrupt 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
- אַוָּה ʼavvâh · H185 · desire, craving, lust
- Both words denote intense desire, two distinct Hebrew words for strong craving.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Desire002004001001001
- עֲגָבִים denotes inordinate or excessive love, the plural/abstract counterpart to עֶגֶב (ʻegeb, H5690), illustrated at Ezekiel 23:11 (describing Oholibah's "lust" as more corrupt than her sister's), where it likewise names a debased, excessive desire.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5691. agabah [עֲגָבָה] noun feminine lustfuless; — suffix עַגְבָתָהּ Eze 23:11 (of…
[עֲגָבָה] noun feminine lustfuless; — suffix עַגְבָתָהּ Eze 23:11 (of personified Jerusalem; || תַּזְנוּתֶיהָ).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
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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