Agav עָגַב

Agav (Hebrew עָגַב, Strong's H5689) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to lust”. It occurs 7 times in 7 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Agav, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 4:30
  And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 23:5
  And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,Oholah prostituted herself while she was still Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors
• Ezekiel 23:7
  Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.She offered sexual favors to all the elite of Assyria. She defiled herself with all the idols of those for whom she lusted.
• Ezekiel 23:9
  Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, the Assyrians for whom she lusted.
• Ezekiel 23:12
  She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.She too lusted after the Assyrians—governors and commanders, warriors dressed in splendor, horsemen riding on steeds, all desirable young men.
• Ezekiel 23:16
  And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.At the sight of them, she lusted for them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
• Ezekiel 23:20
  For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.

Notes

1. 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.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).