Strong's Definition
a primitive root; to desire
KJV Usage: long
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
יָאַב (ya.av) — to long. (Qal) to long, long for, desire
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb
Wish | verb qal
to desire, to long for = process by which humans experience a more or less strong internal urge to know or do something
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[יָאַב] vb. long, desire—Qal ψ 119:131, late Aramaism. ref