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title: חֵשֶׁק — desire · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חֵשֶׁק (2837), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: desire. BDB 1906: n.m. desire. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֵשֶׁק

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«חֵשֶׁק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **desire** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 4 times · **Key:** 2837 · **BDB:** חֵ֫שֶׁק

### Glosses

the.desire (3); my.desire (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

desire [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2837/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. desire [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2837/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. desire = thing desired—cstr. חֵשֶׁק שְׁלֹמֹה 1 Kg 9:19 = 2 Ch 8:6, 1 K 9:1; sf. נֶשֶׁף חִשְׁקִי Is 21:4 the twilight of my pleasure.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חֵשֶׁק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2837/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 21:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.21.4/)

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תָּעָ֣ה לְבָבִ֔י פַּלָּצ֖וּת בִּֽעֲתָ֑תְנִי אֵ֚ת נֶ֣שֶׁף חִשְׁקִ֔י שָׂ֥ם לִ֖י לַחֲרָדָֽה׃

*Word for word:* it.has.wandered heart my shuddering it has.overwhelmed.me (et) the.twilight my.desire my it.has.made for me (into) trembling

*JPS 1917:* My heart is bewildered, terror hath overwhelmed me; the twilight that I longed for hath been turned for me into trembling.

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[1 Kings 9:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.9.1/)

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וַיְהִי֙ כְּכַלּ֣וֹת שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה לִבְנ֥וֹת אֶת־בֵּית־יְהוָ֖ה וְאֶת־בֵּ֣ית הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ וְאֵת֙ כָּל־חֵ֣שֶׁק שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר חָפֵ֖ץ לַעֲשֽׂוֹת׃פ

*Word for word:* and it.was just as.had.finished Solomon to build (et) the.house of.Yahweh and (et) the.house of the.king and (et) all the.desire of.Solomon which he.delighted to do

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's delight which he was pleased to do,

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