H1942: הַוָּה
havvâh · pronounced hav-vaw' · “desire”
Definition
by implication, of falling); desire; also ruin
KJV translates it as: calamity, iniquity, mischief, mischievous (thing), naughtiness, naughty, noisome, perverse thing, substance, very wickedness.
Word origin: from H1933 (הָוָא) (in the sense of eagerly coveting and rushing upon;
Extended definition
1a) desire (in bad sense)
2) chasm (fig. of destruction)
2a) engulfing ruin, destruction, calamity
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H1942 is translated
- destructions ×8
- the craving of ×3
- my ×2
- is destructions ×2
- his ×1
Bible verses with H1942 (havvâh)
Havvâh appears in 16 verses.
- Job 6:2
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
- Job 6:30
Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
- Job 30:13
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
- Psalms 5:9
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
- Psalms 38:12
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
- Psalms 52:2
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
- Psalms 52:7
Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
- Psalms 55:11
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
- Psalms 57:1
To the chief Musician, Al–taschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave. Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
- Psalms 91:3
Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
- Psalms 94:20
Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
- Proverbs 10:3
The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
- Proverbs 11:6
The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
- Proverbs 17:4
A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
- Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
- Micah 7:3
That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.