STRONGS NUMBER H8669


Word Summary
teshuqah: a longing
Original Word: תְּשׁוּקָה
Transliteration: teshuqah
Phonetic Spelling: (tesh-oo-kaw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: a longing
Meaning: a longing
Strong's Concordance
desire

From shuwq in the original sense of stretching out after; a longing -- desire.

see HEBREW shuwq

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H8669. teshuqah

[תְּשׁוּקָה‎] noun feminine longing; — of woman for man, תְּשׁוּקָתֵח אֶלאִֿישֵׁחGenesis 3:16 (J); of man for woman, תְּשׁוּקָתוֺ וְאֵלַי לְדוֺדִי אֲנִי‎ Cant 7:11; of beast to devour, figurative תְּשׁוּקָתוֺ אֵלֶיךָ4:7 (J). (ᵐ5ἀποστροφή Genesis, ἐπιστροφή Canticles, whence NesMarg. 6 proposes תְּשׁוּבָתֵךְ3:16, which BallHpt reads in all; but how explain the unusual and striking word in MT?).