חָוָה
to declare
‘to declare’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Piel
- An intensive or resultative active stem.
Form
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
Person
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H2331 appears in the Book of Job — 5 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Job
- Job 15:17 אֲחַוְ/ךָ֥ Piel impf 1cs + sfx pers 2ms "I will show you, listen to me; That which I have seen I will declare:
- Job 32:6 מֵ/חַוֺּ֖ת prep + Piel inf.cs Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, "I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn't dare show you my opinion.
- Job 32:10 אֲחַוֶּ֖ה Piel impf 1cs Therefore I said, 'Listen to me; I also will show my opinion.'
- Job 32:17 אֲחַוֶּ֖ה Piel impf 1cs I also will answer my part, And I also will show my opinion.
- Job 36:2 וַ/אֲחַוֶּ֑/ךָּ conj + Piel impf 1cs + sfx pers 2ms "Bear with me a little, and I will show you; For I still have something to say on God's behalf.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
חוה — transliterated châvâh — is a Hebrew verb carrying the sense “to declare.” Its uses cluster heavily in Job (83% of all occurrences). With 6 verses in 2 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. It first appears in Job 15:17. It is not a single-sense word — see its full sense range. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2331 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,040
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,040 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 6 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 6 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: I also will shew 2×, I will shew 2×
- American Standard Version: I will show 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Will declare 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: I will show you 2×, Will declare 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2331 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2331 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2331 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2331 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 1 sense the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
Piel
- Impf. 3 ms. יְחַוֶּה־ ψ 19:3; 1 s. אֲחַוֶּה Jb 32:10, 17; sf. אֲחַוְךָ Jb 15:17, אֲחַוֶּךָּ Jb 36:2; Inf. cstr. חַוֹּת;—declare, make known, c. acc. דָּ֑עַת ψ 19:3 (subj. לַיְלָה, sq. לְלַיְלָה; ‖ יַבִּיעַ אֹמֶר); c. acc. דֵּעִי Jb 32:10, 17; c. 2 acc. וָאִירָא מֵחַוֹּת דֵּעִי אֶתְכֶם 32:6, sq. sf. pers. + obj. cl., וַאֲחַוֶּ֑ךָּ כִּי־עוֹד לֶאֱלוֹהַּ מִלִּֽים׃ 36:2 and I will shew thee that (there are) yet words for God; sq. sf. pers. only Jb 15:17;—read prob. also וַאֲחַוֶּה for וַאֲקַוֶּה ψ 52:11 Hi Che al. e.g. Psalms 19:3
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
vb. only Pi. (poet. & late), tell, declare (Aramaic ܚܰܘܺܝ, חַוֵּי)—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חוא (chăvâʼ) (H2324) — to show.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
חַוָּהּ
- (b. h.) pr. n. f. Ḥavvah, Eve, Adam’s wife. Gen. R. s. 22 ח׳ הראשונה the original Eve. Sabb. 95ᵃ; a. fr.
חוי
- , Pi. חִיוָּה (b. h.)
- 1. to point. Meg. 16ᵃ היתה מְחַוָּוה וכ׳ she was pointing at Ahasver.
- 2. to show, teach, tell. Gen. R. s. 20 (play on חַוָּה) ח׳ לה אדם וכ׳ Adam told her &c.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms H2331 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֲחַוֶּ֖ה | Verb, Piel, Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular | Job 32:10 | 2 |
| אֲחַוְ/ךָ֥ | Verb, Piel, Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular | Job 15:17 | 1 |
| וַ/אֲחַוֶּ֑/ךָּ | Verb, Piel, Imperfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular | Job 36:2 | 1 |
| יְחַוֶּה | Verb, Piel, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Psalms 19:2 | 1 |
| מֵ/חַוֺּ֖ת | Verb, Piel, Infinitive Construct | Job 32:6 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2331, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 6 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 6 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
