Strong's #14: 'abah (pronounced aw-baw')
a primitive root; to breathe after, i.e. (figuratively) to be acquiescent:--consent, rest content will, be willing.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
'âbâh
1) to be willing, consent
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be willing
1a2) to consent, yield to, accept
1a3) to desire
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 54 times:
Genesis 24:5: "him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this"
Genesis 24:8: "And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear"
Exodus 10:27: "Pharaoh's heart, and he would let them go."
Leviticus 26:21: "ye walk contrary unto me, and will not unto me; I will bring seven times more"
Deuteronomy 1:26: " Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment your God:"
Deuteronomy 2:30: "But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass the LORD"
Deuteronomy 10:10: "time also, and the LORD would not destroy"
Deuteronomy 13:8: "Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither pity"
Deuteronomy 23:5: "Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto but the LORD"
Deuteronomy 25:7: "unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother."
Deuteronomy 29:20: "The LORD will not spare him, but then of the LORD"
Joshua 24:10: " But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered"
Judges 11:17: "unto the king of Moab: but he would not consent: and Israel abode in Kadesh."
Judges 19:10: "But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, over against"
Judges 19:25: "But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took and brought her forth"
Judges 20:13: "from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice"
1 Samuel 15:9: "and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every"
1 Samuel 22:17: "it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand"
1 Samuel 26:23: "delivered thee into my hand today, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the LORD's"
1 Samuel 31:4: "come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armorbearer would not; for"
2 Samuel 2:21: "and take thee his armor. But Asahel would not turn aside from following"
2 Samuel 6:10: "So David would not remove the ark unto"
2 Samuel 12:17: "him, to raise him up from but he would not, neither did he eat bread"
2 Samuel 13:14: " Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced"
2 Samuel 13:16: "than the other that thou didst unto me. But he would not hearken"
2 Samuel 13:25: "we be chargeable unto thee. And he pressed him: howbeit he would not go, but blessed"
2 Samuel 14:29: "to have sent him to but he would not come to him: and when he sent"
2 Samuel 14:29: "him: and when he sent again the second time, he would not come."
2 Samuel 23:16: "and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out"
2 Samuel 23:17: "is not this the blood that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These"
1 Kings 20:8: "not unto him, nor consent."
1 Kings 22:49: "thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not."
2 Kings 8:19: "Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah his servant's"
2 Kings 13:23: "Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast"
2 Kings 24:4: "with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon."
1 Chronicles 10:4: "uncircumcised come and abuse me. But his armorbearer would not; for"
1 Chronicles 11:18: "it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured it out"
1 Chronicles 11:19: "men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink"
1 Chronicles 19:19: "David, and became his servants: neither would the Syrians help the children"
2 Chronicles 21:7: "Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house because of"
Job 39:9: "Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by"
Psalms 81:11: "hearken to my voice; and Israel would"
Proverbs 1:10: "if sinners entice thee, consent thou not."
Proverbs 1:25: "But ye have set at naught all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:"
Proverbs 1:30: " They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof."
Proverbs 6:35: "regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, thou givest many gifts."
Isaiah 1:19: "If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:"
Isaiah 28:12: "and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear."
Isaiah 30:9: "lying children, that will not hear the law of the LORD:"
Isaiah 30:15: "and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not."
