Strong's #183: 'avah (pronounced aw-vaw')

a primitive root; to wish for:--covet, (greatly) desire, be desirous, long, lust (after).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

'âvâh

1) desire, incline, covet, wait longingly, wish, sigh, want, be greedy, prefer

1a) (Piel) to desire, crave (food and drink)

1b) (Hithpael) to desire, long for, lust after (of bodily appetites)

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 26 times:

 

Numbers 11:4: "And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also"
Numbers 11:34: "they buried the people that lusted."
Deuteronomy 5:21: "thy neighbor's neither shalt thou covet thy neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant,"
Deuteronomy 12:20: "flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh,"
Deuteronomy 14:26: "that money for whatsoever lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine,"
1 Samuel 2:16: "presently, and then take as much as thy soul desireth; then he would answer him, Nay; but thou shalt give"
2 Samuel 3:21: "over all that thine heart desireth. And David sent Abner"
2 Samuel 23:15: "And David longed, and said, would give me drink of the water of the well"
1 Kings 11:37: "according to all thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel."
1 Chronicles 11:17: "And David longed, and said, one would give me drink of the water of the well"
Job 23:13: "mind, and who him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth."
Psalms 45:11: "So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: he is thy Lord; and worship"
Psalms 106:14: " But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted in the desert."
Psalms 132:13: "the LORD hath chosen he hath desired it for his habitation."
Psalms 132:14: "forever: will I dwell; for I have desired"
Proverbs 13:4: "The soul of the sluggard desireth, but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat."
Proverbs 21:10: "The soul of the wicked desireth his neighbor findeth no favor in his eyes."
Proverbs 21:26: " He coveteth greedily all long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not."
Proverbs 23:3: "Be not desirous of his dainties: are deceitful meat."
Proverbs 23:6: "of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:"
Proverbs 24:1: "against evil neither desire to be with"
Ecclesiastes 6:2: "for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power"
Isaiah 26:9: "With my soul have I desired thee in the night; with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for"
Jeremiah 17:16: "to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou"
Amos 5:18: "Woe unto you that desire of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day"
Micah 7:1: "cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit."