Strong's Hebrew · H8669
H8669 tᵉshûwqâh
תְּשׁוּקָה
tesh-oo-kaw'
desire
tᵉshûwqâh appears 3 times in Scripture, in Genesis 3:16, Genesis 4:7 and Song of Solomon 7:10. In the Doxa app, open each of these verses, keep your notes on them, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
a longing
In the King James Version
desire.
Derivation
from H7783 (שׁוּק) in the original sense of stretching out after;
Appears 3 times in Scripture
“I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.”
“To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.””
“If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it.””
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
