Strong's #4723: miqveh (pronounced mik-veh')
or miqveh (1 Kings 10:28) {mik-vay'}; or miqvet (2 Chron. 1:16) {mik-vay'}; from 6960; something waited for, i.e. confidence (objective or subjective); also a collection, i.e. (of water) a pond, or (of men and horses) a caravan or drove:--abiding, gathering together, hope, linen yarn, plenty (of water), pool.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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miqveh / miqvêh / miqvê'
1) hope
1a) hope
1b) ground of hope
1c) things hoped for, outcome
2) collection, collected mass
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H6960
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1994c, 1995a
Usage:
This word is used 12 times:
Genesis 1:10: "called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God"
Exodus 7:19: "their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be"
Leviticus 11:36: "Nevertheless a fountain or pit, wherein there is plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth"
1 Kings 10:28: "had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants"
1 Kings 10:28: "and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price."
1 Chronicles 29:15: "the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding."
2 Chronicles 1:16: "had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received"
2 Chronicles 1:16: "and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price."
Ezra 10:2: "of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning"
Jeremiah 14:8: " O the hope of Israel, the savior thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger"
Jeremiah 17:13: "O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written"
Jeremiah 50:7: "against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers."