הַוָּהhavvâh/hav-vaw'/
HebrewH194216 occurrences (KJV)
by implication, of falling); desire; also ruin
KJV renders it: calamity, iniquity, mischief, mischievous (thing), naughtiness, naughty, noisome, perverse thing, substance, very wickedness.
Where it appears
- Job 6:2“Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
- Job 6:30Is there injustice on my tongue? Can’t my taste discern mischievous things?
- Job 30:13They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, without anyone’s help.
- Ps 5:9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
- Ps 38:12They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
- Ps 52:2Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
- Ps 52:7“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”
- Ps 55:11Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don’t depart from her streets.
- Ps 57:1For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A poem by David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave. Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed.
- Ps 91:3For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.
- Ps 94:20Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?
- Prov 10:3Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.
- Prov 11:6The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.
- Prov 17:4An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
- Prov 19:13A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.
- Mic 7:3Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.