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אַוָּה

ava · desire, craving

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H185 · appears 7 times in the Bible

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What it means

ava (אַוָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “desire, craving”.

Desire: a strong wanting of something.

How to say it

a·va

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. A strong longing for something.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • desire ×6
  • craving ×1

Related words

Comes from

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Deuteronomy 12:15

    However, with all the desire of your soul you may sacrifice and eat meat according to the blessing of YHWH your Elohim that he has given you within all your gates; the unclean and the clean may eat it, as they eat the gazelle and the deer.

  • Deuteronomy 12:20

    When YHWH your Elohim enlarges your territory as he has spoken to you, and you say, “I will eat meat,” because your soul craves to eat meat, you may eat meat with all the desire of your soul.

  • Deuteronomy 12:21

    If the place that YHWH your Elohim chooses to put his name there is far from you, then you may sacrifice from your herd and from your flock that YHWH has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat within your gates with all the desire of your soul.

  • Deuteronomy 18:6

    And if the Levite comes from one of your gates, from all Israel, where he resides as an alien, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place that YHWH chooses,

  • 1 Samuel 23:20

    Now, according to all the desire of your soul, O king, to come down, come down; and our part will be to deliver him into the hand of the king.”

  • Jeremiah 2:24

    a wild donkey used to the wilderness, in the craving of her soul sniffing the wind; her heat, who can turn it back? All who seek her will not tire themselves; in her month they will find her.

  • Hosea 10:10

    When I desire, I will discipline them; and peoples will be gathered against them, when they are bound for their two iniquities.