עֶגֶב
egev · lustful love
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5690 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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egev (עֶגֶב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lustful love”.
Love, words or desire of passionate love.
How to say it
e·gev
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
- Sweet talk of passion.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Ezekiel 33:31
And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they do not do them; for with their mouth they profess love, but after their gain their heart goes.
- Ezekiel 33:32
And look, you are to them like a song of love, beautiful of voice and one who plays well; and they hear your words, but they do not do them.