STRONGS NUMBER H8615


Word Summary
tiqvah: cord
Original Word: תִּקְוָה
Transliteration: tiqvah
Phonetic Spelling: (tik-vaw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: cord
Meaning: a cord, expectancy
Strong's Concordance
expectation ted, hope, live, thing that I long for

From qavah; literally, a cord (as an attachment (compare qaveh)); figuratively, expectancy -- expectation ((-ted)), hope, live, thing that I long for.

see HEBREW qavah

see HEBREW qaveh

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H8615. tiqvah

I. [תִּקְוָה‎] noun feminine cord (compare √ at the beginning); — construct הַשָּׁנִי חוּט) תִּקְוַתJoshua 2:18, 21.

II. תִּקְוָה34 noun feminine hope; — absolute ׳תHosea 2:17 +; construct תִּקְוַתJob 8:13 +; suffix תִּקְוָתִי6:8 +, etc.; —

1 hope, Jeremiah 31:17; Lamentations 3:29; Job 5:16; 7:6; 11:18, 20; 14:7, 19; 17:15a 19:10; Psalm 62:6; Proverbs 19:18; 26:12; 29:20; Ruth 1:12; ת ׳מֶּתַחHosea 2:17; הַתּ ׳אֲסִירֵיZechariah 9:12 (i.e. with hope of deliverance).

2 = ground of hope Job 4:6; Psalm 71:5 (compare 62:6).

3 things hoped for, outcome, Ezekiel 19:5; 37:11; Job 6:8; 8:13; 17:15b (but read ᵐ5 טוֺבָתִי‎ Me Bi Siegf Beer Bu Du), 27:8; Psalm 9:19; Proverbs 10:28; 11:7, 23; 23:18; 24:14 (strike out Toy as gloss); וְת ׳אַחֲרִיתJeremiah 29:11 (i.e. by hendyadis, the hoped-for future).