חֵשֶׁק
cheshek · desire
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2837 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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cheshek (חֵשֶׁק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “desire”.
What someone longs to do or to have. From the root of "be attached to, delight in."
How to say it
che·shek
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
- What someone wants to do or have and finds pleasing.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 1 Kings 9:1
And it happened, when Solomon had finished building the house of YHWH and the house of the king and all the desire of Solomon that he was pleased to do,
- 1 Kings 9:19
and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and the cities for chariots, and the cities for horsemen, and the desire of Solomon that he desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his dominion.
- 2 Chronicles 8:6
and Baalath, and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the cities of the chariots and the cities of the horsemen, and all the desire of Solomon, what he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
- Isaiah 21:4
My heart goes astray; horror has overwhelmed me; the twilight of my desire he has made for me into trembling.