Havvâh — H1942

Definition

feminine noun

by implication, of falling); desire; also ruin

1. desire
1. desire (in bad sense)
2. chasm (fig. of destruction)
1. engulfing ruin, destruction, calamity

Usually translated as

calamity, very wickedness, iniquity, mischievous, naughtiness, naughty, substance, mischief, noisome, perverse thing

Origin

from H1933 (in the sense of eagerly coveting and rushing upon

• Derived from Hâvâʼ (H1933)

Greek equivalents

• adikía (G93)
• aischýnē (G152)
• anomía (G458)
• asébeia (G763)
• mataiótēs (G3153)
• odýnē (G3601)

Occurrences

Havvâh occurs 16 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Job (3), Psalms (8), Proverbs (4), Micah (1)

• Job 6:2 — Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity (וְ֝הַוָּתִ֗י) laid in the balances together!
• Job 6:30 — Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things (הַוּֽוֹת)?
• Job 30:13 — They mar my path, they set forward my calamity (לְהַוָּתִ֥י), they have no helper.
• Psalms 5:9 — For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness (הַ֫וּ֥וֹת); 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 (הַוּ֑וֹת), and imagine deceits all the day long.
• Psalms 52:2 — Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs (הַ֭וּוֹת); 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 (בְּהַוָּתֽוֹ).
• Psalms 55:11 — Wickedness (הַוּ֥וֹת) is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
• Psalms 57:1 — 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 (הַוּֽוֹת) be overpast.
• Psalms 91:3 — Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence (הַוּֽוֹת).
• Psalms 94:20 — Shall the throne of iniquity (הַוּ֑וֹת) 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 (וְהַוַּ֖ת) of the wicked.
• Proverbs 11:6 — The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness (וּ֝בְהַוַּ֗ת).
• Proverbs 17:4 — A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty (הַוֹּֽת) tongue.
• Proverbs 19:13 — A foolish son is the calamity (הַוֹּ֣ת) 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 (הַוַּ֥ת) desire: so they wrap it up.