H185 - אַוָּה (ʼavvâh)

H185 אַוָּה (ʼavvâh) av-vaw'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

desire

Strong's Definition

longing

Derivation: from H183 (אָוָה);

KJV Usage: desire, lust after, pleasure.

TWOT Reference: 40b

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) desire, lust, will (not necessarily evil)

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G93 G1939

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

desire, lust, will (not necessarily evil)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

אַוָּה avvâh BDB Definition: 1) desire, lust, will (not necessarily evil) Part of Speech: noun feminine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H183 Same Word by TWOT Number: 40b Total KJV Occurrences: 1

Bible Occurrences (7)

12:15 12:20 12:21 18:6

23:20

2:24

10:10

Deuteronomy 12:15

But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Both the ceremonially clean and unclean may eat it as they would a gazelle or deer,

Deuteronomy 12:20

When the LORD your God expands your territory as He has promised -, and you crave... meat and say, I want to eat meat, you may eat it whenever you want.

Deuteronomy 12:21

If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His Name... is too far from you, then you may slaughter any of the herd or flock He has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your gates whenever you want.

Deuteronomy 18:6

Now if a Levite moves from any town... of residence throughout Israel and comes in all earnestness... to the place the LORD will choose,

1 Samuel 23:20

Now, O king, come down whenever your soul desires -, and we will be responsible for delivering him into your hand....”

Jeremiah 2:24

a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.

Hosea 10:10

I will chasten them when I please; nations will be gathered against them to put them in bondage for their double transgression.