agav · lust after

What it means

agav (עֲגַב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lust after”.

To desire passionately; as a noun, a lover.

How to say it

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. To lust after; those who desire her.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• she was infatuated ×6
• lovers ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×6

• Jeremiah 4:30

  And you, devastated one, what will you do? Though you dress in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with antimony, in vain you make yourself beautiful. The lovers despise you; they seek your soul.

• Ezekiel 23:5

  And Oholah prostituted herself while under me, and she was infatuated with her lovers, with Assyria, the near ones,

• Ezekiel 23:7

  And she bestowed her prostitutions on them, the choicest of the sons of Assyria, all of them; and with all for whom she was infatuated, with all their idols, she defiled herself.

• Ezekiel 23:9

  Therefore I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the sons of Assyria, for whom she was infatuated.

• Ezekiel 23:12

  With the sons of Assyria she was infatuated, governors and prefects, near ones, clothed to perfection, horsemen riding horses, desirable young men all of them.

• Ezekiel 23:16

  And she was infatuated with them at the sight of her eyes, and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

• Ezekiel 23:20

  And she was infatuated with their concubines, whose flesh is the flesh of donkeys, and whose flow is the flow of horses.