Lexicon havvah: desire, chasm, destruction Original Word: הַוַּתPart of Speech: Noun Feminine Transliteration: havvah Phonetic Spelling: (hav-vaw') Short Definition: destruction NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom havahDefinitiondesire, chasm, destruction NASB Translationcalamities (1), calamity (1), craving (1), deadly (1), desire (2), destruction (8), destructive (1), greed (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs הַוָּה noun feminine 1. desire; 2 chasm, figurative destruction (compare  desire,  atmosphere, emptiness,  a deep pit, hell (compare below הָוָה); Aramaic  gulf, chasm (Luke 16:26 ᵑ6)) construct הַוַּת Micah 7:3 +, suffix הַוָּתִי Job 6:2 +, plural הַוּוֺת Psalm 5:10 +; — 1 desire (in bad sense) Micah 7:3 דֹּבֵר הַוַּת נַפְשׁוֺ speaketh the desire of his soul, Proverbs 10:3 הַוַּת רְשָׁעִים, Proverbs 11:6 בֹּגְדִים ׳ה, Psalm 52:9 יָעֹז בְּהַוָּתוֺ became strong through his (evil) desire (but read rather with ᵑ6 ᵑ7 Lag Gr Bi Che Now ׃ בְּהוֺנוֺ "" בְּעָשְׁרוֺ). 2 engulfing ruin, destruction Job 6:2; Qr Job 30:13 (compare Baer's note) הַוָּתִי of Job's great calamity; plural (intensive) הַוּוֺת, especially as wrought, or meditated, by one against another, Psalm 5:10 קִרְבָּם הַוּוֺת their inward part is engulfing ruin (Che), Psalm 38:13 דִּבְּרוּ הַוּוֺת, Psalm 52:4 תַּחֲשֹׁב ׳ה לְשׁוֺנְךָ (compare Proverbs 17:4 לְשׁוֺן הַוּוֺת), Prov 55:12 בְּקִרְבָּהּ ׳ה, Prov 57:2׳עַד יַעֲבֹר ה till the storm of ruin (Che) pass by, Prov 91:3׳דֶּבֶר ה destructive pestilence, Prov 94:20 ׳כִּסֵּא ה the seat (tribunal) of destruction (i.e. which ruins the innocent by injustice), Proverbs 19:13 a foolish son is הַוּוֺת לְאָבָיו, Job 6:30 (compare Job 6:2 above)
Strong's calamity, iniquity, mischief, mischievous thing, naughtiness, naughty, perverse thing, From hava' (in the sense of eagerly coveting and rushing upon; by implication, of falling); desire; also ruin -- calamity, iniquity, mischief, mischievous (thing), naughtiness, naughty, noisome, perverse thing, substance, very wickedness. see HEBREW hava' |
