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Lexicon :: Strong's H14 - 'āḇâ

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אָבָה
Transliteration
'āḇâ
Pronunciation
aw-baw'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 3

Strong’s Definitions

אָבָה ʼâbâh, aw-baw'; a primitive root; to breathe after, i.e. (figuratively) to be acquiescent:—consent, rest content will, be willing.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 54x

The KJV translates Strong's H14 in the following manner: would (42x), will (4x), willing (4x), consent (3x), rest content (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 54x
The KJV translates Strong's H14 in the following manner: would (42x), will (4x), willing (4x), consent (3x), rest content (1x).

  1. to be willing, consent

    1. (Qal)

      1. to be willing

      2. to consent, yield to, accept

      3. to desire

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אָבָה ʼâbâh, aw-baw'; a primitive root; to breathe after, i.e. (figuratively) to be acquiescent:—consent, rest content will, be willing.
STRONGS H14: Abbreviations
† I. אָבָה verb be willing, consent (compare Assyrian abîtu, command, DlW, Ethiopic አበየ፡ refuse, Arabic أَبَى, id., Nejd be willing SoDe Jes 3, p. 26; LCB 1880, 817) —
Qal (with לֹא, אַל except Isaiah 1:19; Job 39:9; in Hexateuch rare & only J E D, including Leviticus 26:21); Perfect אָבָה Exodus 10:27 + אָבוּ Judges 19:25 + 7 times; אָבוּא Isaiah 28:12 (Sta§ 31 R. 2; Kö1, 414); Imperfect יֹאבֶה Deuteronomy 29:19 + 2 times; 2nd person masculine singular jussive תֹּבֵא Proverbs 1:10 (Sta§ 143 e 1 fin; Kö1, 576 f) etc.; Participle אֹבִים Ezekiel 3:7; — be willing, followed by Infinitive with ל Exodus 10:27 + 29 times; without ל Deuteronomy 2:30 + 8 times; subject י׳ Deuteronomy 10:10; Deuteronomy 23:6; Deuteronomy 29:19; Joshua 24:10; 2 Kings 8:19; 2 Kings 13:23; 2 Kings 24:4; 2 Chronicles 21:7; human subject Genesis 24:5, 8; Judges 19:10; 2 Samuel 2:21; 2 Samuel 13:25; 2 Samuel 14:29 (twice in verse); 2 Samuel 23:16, 17 = 1 Chronicles 11:18, 19; 1 Chronicles 19:19; in bad sense Exodus 10:27; Deuteronomy 2:30; Deuteronomy 25:7; Judges 19:25; Judges 20:13; 2 Samuel 13:14, 16; especially of perverse Israel Leviticus 26:21; Deuteronomy 1:26; 1 Samuel 15:9; Isaiah 28:12; Isaiah 30:9; Isaiah 42:24; Ezekiel 3:7 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 20:8; subject animal, רֵים Job 39:9; absolute (no Infinitive) 2 Samuel 12:17; 1 Kings 20:8; 1 Kings 22:50; compare Proverbs 6:35, of jealous man; bad sense Judges 11:17; Isaiah 30:15; good sense 1 Samuel 22:17; 1 Samuel 26:23; 1 Samuel 31:4 = 1 Chronicles 10:4; 2 Samuel 6:10; Proverbs 1:10; + finite verb Isaiah 1:19 (אִם תּאֹבוּ וּשְׁמַעְתֶּם); consent, yield to, followed by לוֺ Deuteronomy 13:9 (good sense); followed by לִי Psalm 81:12; followed by לַעֲצָתִי Proverbs 1:30; followed by accusative תּוֺכַחְתִּי Proverbs 1:25 (all in bad sense).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

24:5; 24:8

Exodus

10:27; 10:27; 10:27

Leviticus

26:21; 26:21

Deuteronomy

1:26; 2:30; 2:30; 10:10; 13:9; 23:6; 25:7; 29:19; 29:19

Joshua

24:10

Judges

11:17; 19:10; 19:25; 19:25; 20:13

1 Samuel

15:9; 22:17; 26:23; 31:4

2 Samuel

2:21; 6:10; 12:17; 13:14; 13:16; 13:25; 14:29; 23:16; 23:17

1 Kings

20:8; 22:50

2 Kings

8:19; 13:23; 24:4

1 Chronicles

10:4; 11:18; 11:19; 19:19

2 Chronicles

21:7

Job

39:9; 39:9

Psalms

81:12

Proverbs

1:10; 1:10; 1:25; 1:30; 6:35

Isaiah

1:19; 1:19; 28:12; 28:12; 30:9; 30:15; 42:24

Ezekiel

3:7; 3:7; 20:8

H14

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Strong's Number H14 matches the Hebrew אָבָה ('āḇâ),
which occurs 54 times in 52 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 24:5–Isa 42:24)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:5 - The servant said to him, "What if the woman isn't willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:8 - If the woman isn't willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this my oath. Only you shall not bring my son there again."

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:27 - But the LORD hardened Par`oh's heart, and he wouldn't let them go.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:21 - If you walk contrary to me, and won't listen to me, I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:26 - Yet you wouldn't go up, but rebelled against the mitzvah of the LORD your God:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:30 - But Sichon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for the LORD your God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as at this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:10 - I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights: and the LORD listened to me that time also; the LORD would not destroy you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:8 - you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:5 - Nevertheless the LORD your God wouldn't listen to Bil`am; but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because the LORD your God loved you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:7 - If the man doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the Zakenim, and say, My husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Yisra'el; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:20 - The LORD will not pardon him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie on him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under the sky.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:10 - but I would not listen to Bil`am; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:17 - then Yisra'el sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, Please let me pass through your land; but the king of Edom didn't listen. In the same way, he sent to the king of Mo'av; but he would not: and Yisra'el abode in Kadesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:10 - But the man wouldn't stay that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Yevus (the same is Yerushalayim): and there were with him a couple of donkeys saddled; his concubine also was with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:25 - But the men wouldn't listen to him: so the man laid hold on his concubine, and brought her forth to them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:13 - Now therefore deliver up the men, the base fellows, who are in Gevah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Yisra'el. But Binyamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers the children of Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:9 - But Sha'ul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and wouldn't utterly destroy them: but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:17 - The king said to the guard who stood about him, Turn, and kill the Kohanim of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn't disclose it to me. But the servants of the king wouldn't put forth their hand to fall on the Kohanim of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:23 - The LORD will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; because the LORD delivered you into my hand today, and I wouldn't put forth my hand against the LORD's anointed.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:4 - Then said Sha'ul to his armor bearer, Draw your sword, and thrust me through therewith, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armor bearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Sha'ul took his sword, and fell on it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:21 - Aviner said to him, Turn you aside to your right hand or to your left, and lay you hold on one of the young men, and take you his armor. But `Asa'el would not turn aside from following him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:10 - So David would not remove the ark of the LORD to him into the city of David; but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:17 - The Zakenim of his house arose, and stood beside him, to raise him up from the eretz: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:14 - However he would not listen to her voice; but being stronger than she, he forced her, and lay with her.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:16 - She said to him, Not so, because this great wrong in putting me forth is worse than the other that you did to me. But he would not listen to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:25 - The king said to Avshalom, No, my son, let us not all go, lest we be burdensome to you. He pressed him: however he would not go, but blessed him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:29 - Then Avshalom sent for Yo'av, to send him to the king; but he would not come to him: and he sent again a second time, but he would not come.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:16 - The three mighty men broke through the host of the Pelishtim, and drew water out of the well of Beit-Lechem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but he would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:17 - He said, Be it far from me, LORD, that I should do this: shall I drink the blood of the men who went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:8 - All the Zakenim and all the people said to him, Don't you listen, neither consent.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:49

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:49 - Then said Achazyah the son of Ach'av to Yehoshafat, Let my servants go with your servants in the ships. But Yehoshafat would not.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:19 - However the LORD would not destroy Yehudah, for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give to him a lamp for his children always.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 13:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:23 - But the LORD was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect to them, because of his covenant with Avraham, Yitzchak, and Ya`akov, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 24:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 24:4 - and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Yerushalayim with innocent blood: and the LORD would not pardon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 10:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:4 - Then said Sha'ul to his armor-bearer, Draw your sword, and thrust me through therewith, lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me. But his armor-bearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Sha'ul took his sword, and fell on it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 11:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:18 - The three broke through the host of the Pelishtim, and drew water out of the well of Beit-Lechem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 11:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:19 - and said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this: shall I drink the blood of these men who have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 19:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:19 - When the servants of Hadad`ezer saw that they were put to the worse before Yisra'el, they made shalom with David, and served him: neither would the Aram help the children of `Ammon any more.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:7 - However the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a lamp to him and to his children always.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:9 - "Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 81:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:11 - But my people didn't listen to my voice. Yisra'el desired none of me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:10 - My son, if sinners entice you, don't consent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 1:25

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:25 - But you have ignored all my counsel, And wanted none of my reproof;

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 1:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:30 - They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:35

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:35 - He won't regard any ransom, Neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:19 - If you are willing and obedient, You shall eat the good of the land;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:12 - to whom he said, This is the rest, give you rest to him who is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:9 - For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of the LORD;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:15 - For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Yisra'el, In returning and rest shall you be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. You would not:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:24 - Who gave Ya`akov for a spoil, and Yisra'el to the robbers? Didn't the LORD? he against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, neither were they obedient to his law.

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