תָּאַב
tâʼab · H8373 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to long, to desire
Process by which someone experiences a desire to know or do something, or for something to happen; only used in connection with God
ExamplesPsalm 119:40 Behold, I long for Your precepts; Revive me through Your righteousness.
Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, LORD, And Your Law is my delight.
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
Who or what does itSubject
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: I 2
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- לto/for+ יְשׁוּעָהsalvation, deliverance 1
- לto/for+ פִּקּוּדcommandments 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 2 words
- חָשַׁק châshaq · H2836 · to connect with a rod, to love, to desire
- Both lexemes denote emotional states of longing/desiring, fitting the near-synonym profile (two distinct words that overlap in sense).
- שָׁאַף shâʼaph · H7602 · to gasp, to pant, to sniff the air
- Both can express intense yearning. שָׁאַף (shâʼaph, H7602) has a wide range, including panting, devouring and desiring, but earnest desire is a core sense, whereas תָּאַב (tâʼab, H8373) specifically means to long.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Wish002004002001001
- This verb denotes longing for something, as in Psalm 119:40's declaration that the psalmist longs for God's precepts.
- Hate002001002014
- תָּאַב (tâʼab, H8373)'s own occurrences (2, glossed "I.long," a sense of longing or desiring) give no independent basis for the "Hate" domain beyond what is recorded for its bundle partner. That classification is bundle-shared with תָּאַב (tâʼab, H8374) in the source data and is not independently confirmed by this lexeme's own occurrences.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8373. taab or taeb I. [תָּאֵב תָּאֵב,] verb long for (Late Hebrew id., תִּיאֲבוֺן…
or taeb I. [תָּאֵב תָּאֵב,] verb long for (Late Hebrew id., תִּיאֲבוֺן desire; Aramaic תְּאִיב תְּאֵב, long for; ? secondary √ from אָבָה, or denominative from תַּאֲבָה, and this from אבה, compare Buhl; but see Ol§ 137); —
Qal Perfect1singular תִּאַ֫בְתִּי, with ל thing, Psa 119:40; Psa 119:174.
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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