Strong's Definition
a primitive root; to wish for
KJV Usage: covet, (greatly) desire, be desirous, long, lust (after)
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
אָוָה (a.vah) — to desire. 1) desire, incline, covet, wait longingly, wish, sigh, want, be greedy, prefer 1a) (Piel) to desire, crave (food and drink) 1b) (Hithpael) to desire, long for, lust after (of bodily appetites)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · אַוָּה · הַוָּה · מַאֲוַי · תַּאֲוָה · אוּאֵל
Desire | verb pi, verb hit
to crave, to desire = state in which humans sense a physical craving for food or alcoholic drinks; this desire is associated with one's נֶפֶשׁ ≈ and can be both good and evil
NUM 11:4 · NUM 11:34 · DEU 12:20 · DEU 14:26 · 1SA 2:16 · 2SA 23:15 · 1CH 11:17 · PSA 106:14 · PRO 13:4 · PRO 23:3 · PRO 23:6 · PRO 31:4 · PRO 31:4 · MIC 7:1
Wish | verb pi, verb hit | ≈ חמד
to desire, to long for, to covet = state in which humans and deities experience a desire to possess something, to live somewhere, or to associate with someone; ◄ this desire is associated with one's נֶפֶשׁ; ≈ and can be both good and evil
DEU 5:21 · 2SA 3:21 · 1KI 11:37 · PSA 132:13 · PSA 132:14 · ECC 6:2 · ISA 26:9
verb
Know | verb hit
to mark out = to indicate the boundary of a piece of land by placing markers
1 1CH 11:17 · PRO 23:6 · PRO 24:1 MT-K או | MT-Q אֵי 2 PRO 21:26 MT HOTTP-B NIV NJPS REB GNT CEV התאוה תאוה | RSV NJB NRSV התאוה אישׁ און "the wicked covet"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[אָוָה] vb. incline, desire Pi. desire
Hithp. desire, long for, lust after
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