hava · calamity, ruin, desire

What it means

hava (הַוָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “calamity, ruin, desire”.

Calamity, ruin, misfortune that falls on someone. It can also be an evil desire or the wickedness that destroys.

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. An evil longing that rules someone.
2. A disaster that destroys.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• calamities ×9
• calamity ×4
• craving ×2
• perverse desire ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Job×3
• Psalms×8
• Proverbs×4
• Micah×1

• Job 6:2

  “If only my vexation were truly weighed, and my calamity lifted onto the scales together.

• Job 6:30

  Is there injustice on my tongue? Or can my palate not discern calamities?

• Job 30:13

  They break up my path; they further my calamity, with no one helping them.

• Psalms 5:9

  For there is nothing certain in his mouth; their inner being is calamity; an open grave is their throat; with their tongue they flatter.

• Psalms 38:12

  Those who seek my soul lay snares, and those who strive for my harm speak calamities, and deceits they meditate all the day.

• Psalms 52:2

  Calamities your tongue devises, like a razor sharpened, working deceit.

• Psalms 52:7

  “Look at the man who would not make Elohim his stronghold, and trusted in the abundance of his riches; he grew strong in his calamity.”

• Psalms 55:11

  Calamities are within it; and oppression and deceit do not depart from its square.

• Psalms 57:1

  For the director. Do Not Destroy. Of David. A Miktam, when he fled from before Saul in the cave. Show me favor, Elohim, show me favor, for in you my soul has taken refuge; and in the shadow of your wings I take refuge until the calamities pass by.

• Psalms 91:3

  For he will deliver you from the snare of the hunter, from the pestilence of calamities.

• Psalms 94:20

  Can a throne of calamities be allied with you, one that forms suffering upon a statute?

• Proverbs 10:3

  YHWH will not let the soul of the righteous go hungry, but the craving of the wicked he pushes away.

• Proverbs 11:6

  The righteousness of the upright will deliver them, but by the craving of the treacherous they will be caught.

• Proverbs 17:4

  An evildoer pays attention to a lip of wickedness; a liar gives ear to a tongue of calamities.

• Proverbs 19:13

  Calamities to his father is a senseless son, and a continual dripping are the quarrels of a wife.

• Micah 7:3

  Evil is in both hands, to do it well; the official asks, and the judge judges for a reward, and the great man, he speaks the perverse desire of his soul; and they weave it together.