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Strong's #185: 'avvah (pronounced av-vaw')

from 183; longing:--desire, lust after, pleasure.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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'avvâh

1) desire, lust, will (not necessarily evil)

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from H183



Usage:

This word is used 7 times:

Deuteronomy 12:15: "thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which"
Deuteronomy 12:20: "flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after."
Deuteronomy 12:21: "I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after."
Deuteronomy 18:6: "where sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind"
1 Samuel 23:20: "therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver"
Jeremiah 2:24: "to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who"
Hosea 10:10: " It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows."









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