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Psalms 55:12
“For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H1942 · Hebrew
- Definition
- by implication, of falling); desire; also ruin
- Derivation
- from H1933 (הָוָא) (in the sense of eagerly coveting and rushing upon;
- KJV renderings
- calamity, iniquity, mischief, mischievous (thing), naughtiness, naughty, noisome, perverse thing, substance, very wickedness.
- Grammar
- הַוּ֥וֹת — common noun, feminine, plural, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 16 times in the Hebrew Bible.Job 6:2Job 6:30Job 30:13Psalms 5:10Psalms 38:13
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read הַוָּה here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.