Strong's #8378: ta'avah (pronounced tah-av-aw')

from 183 (abbreviated); a longing; by implication, a delight (subjectively, satisfaction, objectively, a charm):--dainty, desire, X exceedingly, X greedily, lust(ing), pleasant. See also 6914.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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ta'ăvâh

1) desire

1a) desire, wish, longings of one' s heart

1a1) lust, appetite, covetousness (bad sense)

1b) thing desired, object of desire

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from H183 (abbreviation)

Usage:

This word is used 20 times:

 

Genesis 3:6: "for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise,"
Numbers 11:4: "And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also"
Job 33:20: "abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat."
Psalms 10:3: "boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth."
Psalms 10:17: "LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:"
Psalms 21:2: "Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withheld the request of his lips. Selah."
Psalms 38:9: "Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from"
Psalms 78:29: "and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;"
Psalms 78:30: "They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,"
Psalms 106:14: " But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert."
Psalms 112:10: "he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish."
Proverbs 10:24: "of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted."
Proverbs 11:23: " The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath."
Proverbs 13:12: "deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life."
Proverbs 13:19: " The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil."
Proverbs 18:1: " Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom."
Proverbs 19:22: " The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar."
Proverbs 21:25: " The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labor."
Proverbs 21:26: "He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not."
Isaiah 26:8: "of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance"