Strong's #3700: kacaph (pronounced kaw-saf')

a primitive root; properly, to become pale, i.e. (by implication) to pine after; also to fear:--(have) desire, be greedy, long, sore.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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kâsaph

1) to long for, yearn for, long after

1a) (Qal) to long for

1b) (Niphal)

1b1) to long for (deeply)

1b2) being longed for (participle)

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

 

Genesis 31:30: "And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house,"
Genesis 31:30: "And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house,"
Job 14:15: "Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands."
Psalms 17:12: "Like as a lion that is greedy and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places."
Psalms 84:2: "My soul longeth, yea even for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh"
Zephaniah 2:1: "yea, gather together, O nation desired;"