הַוָּה
hawwâ
desire
Strong's H1942NounHebrewTWOT 483a

הַוָּה (hawwâ) is a Hebrew noun meaning desire. It appears 16 times in 4 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H1942).

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 483a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 483a)desire, chasm, destruction; falling), ruin; calamity, iniquity, mischief, mischievous, naughtiness, naughty, noisome, perverse thing, substance, very wickedness
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

הַוָּה noun, feminine: desire, chasm, destruction

desire; 2. chasm, figuratively destruction

Strong's H1942 הַוָּה: by implication, of falling); desire; also ruin
KJV:calamity, iniquity, mischief, mischievous (thing), naughtiness, naughty, noisome, perverse thing, substance, very wickedness.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

See it in Scripture

Job 6:2Psalms 91:3Proverbs 10:3

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