--- title: קָוָה — wait for · The Tanakh dictionary description: קָוָה (6960), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 47 times: wait for. BDB 1906: vb. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6960.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [ק](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1511.md)‎ / קָוָה‎ # קָוָה «קָוָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **wait for** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers. **Used:** 47 times · **Key:** 6960 · **BDB:** קָוָה ### Glosses wait (5); \[those (4); we.have.waited (3) ### Meaning (OSHB) wait for [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6960/#m1) ### Meaning (BDB 1906) vb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6960/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** vb. wait for (prob. orig. twist, stretch, then of tension of enduring, waiting: Assyrian ḳuʾû ii, i. wait, ḳû, cord; Arabic قَوِىَ be strong, قُوَّةٌ strength, also strand of rope; Syriac ܩܰܘܺܝ endure, remain, await, ܩ̈ܘܳܝܶܐ threads, so 𝔗 קַוִּין spider’s threads, web);— Pt. pl. those waiting for (י׳): cstr. קֹוֵי י׳ ψ 37:9; so Is 40:31 van d. H., and Kt Baer Gi (Qr קוֹיֵי); sf. קֹוָי֑ 49:23, קֹוֶיךָ ψ 25:3; 69:7; קֹוָיו La 3:25 Qr (Kt קוו, i.e. קֹווֹ). Pf. 3 fs. קִוְּתָה ψ 130:5; 1 s. קִוִּיתִי Gn 49:18 + 5 times, קִוֵּיתִי Is 5:4, וְק׳ consec. 8:17; sf. קִוִּיתִיךָ ψ 25:21; 3 pl. קִיּוּ ψ 56:7 +, etc.; Impf. יְקֵוֶּה Mi 5:6; Jb 7:2, juss. יְקַו Jb 3:9, וַיְקַו Is 5:2, 7, etc.; Imv. ms. קַוֵּה Ho 12:7 +; Inf. abs. קַוֹּה ψ 40:2, קַוֵּה Je 8:15; 14:19;— wait, or look eagerly, for, c. ל rei Is 5:7; 59:9, 11; Je 8:15, 13:16; 14:19; Jb 3:9; 6:19; לִישׁוּעָֽתְךָ Gn 49:18; c. acc. rei La 2:16 (sf.), Jb 7:2; 30:26 ψ 39:8; obj. rei om. Is 64:2; sq. inf. Is 5:2, 4 ψ 69:21; abs. Jb 17:13; c. acc. י׳ Is 26:8 (sf.), ψ 25:5, 21 (sf.), 40:2 (+ inf. abs.), 130:5, acc. om. v 5, acc. שִׁמְךָ ψ 52:11 (but read prob. אֲחַוֶּה, Hi Che Bae al., v. III. חוה); c. ל of י׳ Is 8:17; 25:9(×2); 33:2; 60:9 (but read prob. צִיִּים יִקָּווּ ships shall gather (II. קוה), so Du CheHpt Di-Kit Marti, cf. Skinner (also Luzz Gei Oort), Je 14:22; Pr 20:22; c. אֶל־אֱלֹהִים Ho 12:7, אֶל־י׳ Is 51:5 ψ 27:14(×2); 37:34. lie in wait for, sq. נַפְשִׁי ψ 56:7; sq. ל pers. ψ 119:95 (+ inf. purpose). wait (linger) for c. ל man Mi 5:6 (‖ יְיַחֵל). Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 43 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «קָוָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6960/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [Genesis 49:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.18/) לִֽישׁוּעָתְךָ֖ קִוִּ֥יתִי יְהוָֽה׃ *Word for word:* for deliverance your I.wait.eagerly O.Yahweh *JPS 1917:* I wait for Thy salvation, O Lord. [Job 6:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.19/) הִ֭בִּיטוּ אָרְח֣וֹת תֵּמָ֑א הֲלִיכֹ֥ת שְׁ֝בָ֗א קִוּוּ־לָֽמוֹ׃ *Word for word:* they.look the.caravans of.Tema the.caravans of.Sheba they.wait.eagerly for them *JPS 1917:* The caravans of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them — - ← previous: [קוֹבַע](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6959.md) - next →: [קָוָה](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e7_5b8_5d5_5b8_5d4.md) - ↑ back to [ק](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1511.md)