תְּשׁוּקָה
tᵉshûwqâh · H8669 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to turn one's attention to, to be enraptured by, to concentrate one's energy on
Action by which someone concentrates their full attention on someone else, either with the purpose of pleasing that person or of gaining control over him/her
ExamplesGenesis 3:16 To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply Your pain in childbirth, In pain you shall deliver children; Yet your desire will be for your husband, And he shall rule over you.”
Genesis 4:7 “If you do well, will your face not be cheerful? And if you do not do well, sin is lurking at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it.”
Song of Solomon 7:10 “I am my beloved’s, And his desire is for me.
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
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- הוּhis 2
- ךְyour 1
What it is said to bePredicate
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- אִישׁman, person, each 1
- נִיme 1
- ךָּyou 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.
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.
Near synonyms 8 words
- אֲרֶשֶׁת ʼăresheth · H782 · request
- תְּשׁוּקָה (tᵉshûwqâh, H8669) means "request" and the second word means "desire"; the two denote distinct but overlapping concepts, both expressing wanting or wishing for something.
- תַּאֲבָה taʼăbâh · H8375 · longing, desire
- Both words denote inner states of wanting or desiring, "longing" and "desire", which are close neighbors in sense.
- רָצוֹן râtsôwn · H7522 · acceptance, favor
- Both words denote desire and wish and are same-language near-synonyms.
- חֶמְדָּה chemdâh · H2532 · desire, value, preciousness
- חֶמְדָּה (chemdâh, H2532) has a broader range (also goodly, pleasant, precious), while תְּשׁוּקָה (tᵉshûwqâh, H8669) is more narrowly focused on desire itself; the two overlap in the sense of desire.
- תַּאֲוָה taʼăvâh · H8378 · craving, desire, longing
- Both words denote desire and longing as mental and emotional states, in the range of wishing and longing.
- מַאֲוַי maʼăvay · H3970 · desire, longing
- Both lexemes denote "desire". They are same-language near-synonyms (two Hebrew words for desire that can substitute in appropriate contexts). The semantic overlap is clear.
- חֵפֶץ chêphets · H2656 · pleasure, desire
- The domain match is real but the evidence base is thin and unverified at the verse level.
- חֵשֶׁק chêsheq · H2837 · desire, long
- Both words denote desire, two distinct Hebrew words that express overlapping senses of wanting and longing.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Wish002004002001001
- This noun denotes a strong longing, as in Genesis 3:16's declaration to the woman that her desire will be for her husband.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8669. teshuqah [תְּשׁוּקָה] noun feminine longing; — of woman for man, תְּשׁוּקָתֵח…
[תְּשׁוּקָה] noun feminine longing; — of woman for man, תְּשׁוּקָתֵח אֶלאִֿישֵׁח Gen 3:16 (J); of man for woman, תְּשׁוּקָתוֺ וְאֵלַי לְדוֺדִי אֲנִי Cant 7:11; of beast to devour, figurative תְּשׁוּקָתוֺ אֵלֶיךָ Gen 4:7 (J). (ᵐ5 ἀποστροφή Genesis, ἐπιστροφή Canticles, whence NesMarg. 6 proposes תְּשׁוּבָתֵךְ Gen 3:16, which BallHpt reads in all; but how explain the unusual and striking word in MT?).
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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