Havvah הַוָּה
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| הַוָּה | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | havvah |
| Strong's number | H1942 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | feminine noun |
| Gloss | desire |
| Occurrences | 16 in 16 verses |
| Most frequent in | Psalms (8) |
Havvah (Hebrew הַוָּה, Strong's H1942) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “desire”. It occurs 16 times in 16 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
1) desire
1a) desire (in bad sense)
2) chasm (fig. of destruction)
2a) engulfing ruin, destruction, calamity
1a) desire (in bad sense)
2) chasm (fig. of destruction)
2a) engulfing ruin, destruction, calamity
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | calamity (3), wickedness (3), things (2), mischiefs (1), calamities (1), noisome (1), iniquity (1), substance (1), naughtiness (1), naughty (1), mischievous (1) |
|---|---|
| BSB | destruction (5), malice (1), my destruction (1), danger (1), deadly (1), can a corrupt (1), craving (1), their own desires (1), destructive (1), ruin (1), evil (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Havvah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Job
- Job 6:2Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
- Job 6:30Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?Is there iniquity on my tongue? Can my mouth not discern malice?
- Job 30:13They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.They tear up my path; they profit from my destruction, with no one to restrain them.
Psalms
- Psalm 5:9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.
- Psalm 38:12They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.
- Psalm 52:2Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
- Psalm 52:7Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”
- Psalm 55:11Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.Destruction is within; oppression and deceit never leave the streets.
- Psalm 57:1Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy, for in You my soul takes refuge. In the shadow of Your wings I will take shelter until the danger has passed.
- Psalm 91:3Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.Surely He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly plague.
- Psalm 94:20Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?Can a corrupt throne be Your ally— one devising mischief by decree?
Proverbs
- Proverbs 10:3The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry, but He denies the craving of the wicked.
- Proverbs 11:6The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the faithless are trapped by their own desires.
- Proverbs 17:4A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.A wicked man listens to evil lips; a liar gives ear to a destructive tongue.
- Proverbs 19:13A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.
Micah
- Micah 7:3That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).