תּוֹחֶלֶת
tochelet · hope, expectation
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8431 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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tochelet (תּוֹחֶלֶת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hope, expectation”.
Hope, what someone looks for.
How to say it
to·che·let
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 one waits for with confidence, expecting it to come.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- Hope ×3
- expectation ×3
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Job 41:9
Look, the hope for it is false; is one not even at the sight of it laid low?
- Psalms 39:7
And now, what have I waited for, Adonai? My expectation is in you.
- Proverbs 10:28
The expectation of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked will perish.
- Proverbs 11:7
When a wicked man dies, his hope perishes, and the expectation of vigor perishes.
- Proverbs 13:12
Hope deferred makes sick the heart, but a tree of life is desire fulfilled.
- Lamentations 3:18
And I said, “My vigor has perished, and my hope from YHWH.”