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עָגַב a.gav H5689

“have inordinate affection; lust” — Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Same root: Related words from the same root: 3 more words

Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) lists these under the root '-g-b (עגב) (same root, per BDB). “Built from” = Strong's (1890) agrees. Related words can still differ in meaning.

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Rendered in WEB as: she lusted ×2, lusted ×1, she lusted after ×1, your lovers ×1 (5 links)

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Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) [jan/p.ak.aa (base)]

[עָגַב] vb. have inordinate affection, lust

Public domain text (BDB 1906); digitisation CC BY 4.0 – credit "Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project"
Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890) [H5689]

Origin: a primitive root; Meaning: to breathe after, i.e. to love (sensually) KJV renders it: dote, lover.

Public domain (James Strong, 1890/1894; file marked <rights>Public Domain</rights>)

7 verse(s)

  1. Jeremiah 4:30 You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with makeup, you make yourself beautiful in vain. Your lovers despise you. They seek your life.
    'o.ge.Vim – qal (simple action) · participle ('…-ing' / 'one who …') · masculine plural HVqrmpa
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  2. Ezekiel 23:5 “Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine. She doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors, verse | pericope | chapter
  3. Ezekiel 23:7 She gave herself as a prostitute to them, all of them the choicest men of Assyria. She defiled herself with the idols of whomever she lusted after.
    'a.ge.Vah – qal (simple action) · perfect (completed action) · she / it HVqp3fs
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  4. Ezekiel 23:9 “Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians on whom she doted. verse | pericope | chapter
  5. Ezekiel 23:12 She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and rulers—her neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.
    'a.Ga.vah – qal (simple action) · perfect (completed action) · she / it HVqp3fs
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  6. Ezekiel 23:16 As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
    va./ta'.gav/h – qal (simple action) · imperfect + waw-consecutive (and then …, usually past) · she / it + extra -ah ending Hc/Vqw3fs/Sh
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  7. Ezekiel 23:20 She lusted after their lovers, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
    va./ta'.ge.Va/h – qal (simple action) · imperfect + waw-consecutive (and then …, usually past) · she / it + extra -ah ending Hc/Vqw3fs/Sh
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