Lexical Summary havvah: desire, chasm, destruction Original Word: הַוָּהTransliteration: havvah Phonetic Spelling: (hav-vaw') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: desire, chasm, destruction Meaning: desire, chasm, destruction Strong's Concordance 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' Brown-Driver-Briggs H1942. havvah 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 נַפְשׁוֺ הַוַּת דֹּבֵר speaketh the desire of his soul, Proverbs 10:3 רְשָׁעִים הַוַּת, 11:6 ׳ה בֹּגְדִים, Psalm 52:9 בְּהַוָּתוֺ יָעֹז became strong through his (evil) desire (but read rather with ᵑ7 ᵑ6 Lag Gr Bi Che Now בְּהוֺנוֺ ׃ "" בְּעָשְׁרוֺ). 2 engulfing ruin, destruction Job 6:2; Qr 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 הַוּוֺת קִרְבָּם their inward part is engulfing ruin (Che), 38:13 הַוּוֺת דִּבְּרוּ, 52:4 לְשׁוֺנְךָ ׳ה תַּחֲשֹׁב (compare Proverbs 17:4 הַוּוֺת לְשׁוֺן), Prov 55:12 ׳ה בְּקִרְבָּהּ, Prov 57:2ה יַעֲבֹר ׳עַד till the storm of ruin (Che) pass by, Prov 91:3ה ׳דֶּבֶר destructive pestilence, Prov 94:20 ה ׳כִּסֵּא the seat (tribunal) of destruction (i.e. which ruins the innocent by injustice), 19:13 a foolish son is לְאָבָיו הַוּוֺת, Job 6:30 (compare 6:2 above) |
    |