תִּקְוָה
Tikvah
BDB lists 3 entries for ‘Tikvah’ 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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H8616 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 books. 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.
2 Kings 1 verse
Ezra 1 verse
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.
תקוה — transliterated Tiqvâh — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Tikvah.” It is rare — just 2 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. More than half of its appearances fall in 2 Kings. It first appears in 2 Kings 22:14. See 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8616 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 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 2 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 50%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 50%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 4 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Tikvah 2×
- American Standard Version†: Tikvah 2×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Tikvah 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Tikvah 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8616 across 3† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8616 across 3† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8616 across 2† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8616 across 2† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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 5 senses and sub-senses 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.
תקוה I cord (cf. √ ad init.)
תקוה II hope
- 1. hope, Je 31:17; La 3:29; Jb 5:16; 7:6; 11:18, 20; 14:7, 19; 17:15a; 19:10; ψ 62:6; Pr 19:18; 26:12; 29:20; Ru 1:12; פֶּתַח ת׳ Ho 2:17; אֲסִירֵי הַתּ׳ Zc 9:12 (i.e. with hope of deliverance). e.g. Jeremiah 31:17
- 2. = ground of hope Jb 4:6 ψ 71:5 (cf. 62:6). e.g. Job 4:6
- 3. things hoped for, outcome, Ez 19:5; 37:11; Jb 6:8; 8:13; 17:15b (but read טוֹבָתִי 𝔊 Me Bi Siegf Beer Bu Du), 27:8 ψ 9:19 Pr 10:28; 11:7, 23; 23:18; 24:14 (del. Toy as gloss); אַחֲרִית וְת׳ Je 29:11 (i. e. by hendiadys, the hoped-for future). e.g. Ezekiel 19:5
תקוה III m. (hope
- 1. father-in-law of Huldah 2 K 22:14, Θεκουαυ, A 𝔊L Θεκ(κ)ουε (= תוקהת 2 Ch 34:22 Kt [Qr תָּקְהַת], Καθουαλ, A Θακουαθ, 𝔊L Θεκωε). e.g. 2 Kings 22:14
- 2. post-ex. name Ezr 10:15, Ελκεια, A 𝔊L Θεκουε. e.g. Ezra 10:15
תקוה IV Qr, תוקהת Kt, v. iii. תִּקְוָה p. 876.
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
I. n.f. cord (cf. √ ad init.);—cstr. הַשָּׁנִי (חוּט) תִּקְוַת Jos 2:18, 21.
II. n.f. hope;—abs. ת׳ Ho 2:17 +; cstr. תִּקְוַת Jb 8:13 +; sf. תִּקְוָתִי 6:8 +, etc.;—
III. n.pr.m. (hope; cf. LagBN 131);—
I. Qr, תוקהת Kt, v. iii. תִּקְוָה p. 876.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from תקוה (tiqvâh) (H8615) — hope.
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.
תִּקְוָה
- hope; term of time. Y. Ber. IX, 13ᵇ bot. כל זמן … ת׳ מת אבדה תִקְוָותוֹ as long as a man lives, he has hope; when he dies, his hope is lost. Y. Naz. I, end, 51ᶜ הנותן ת׳ לנזירותו he who sets a limit to his vow of nazariteship (even if it exceed a life time); a. e.
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 2 distinct written forms H8616 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| תִּקְוָ֖ה | Noun, Proper | Ezra 10:15 | 1 |
| תִּקְוָ֗ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 22:14 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Tikvah). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(hope).
+ The father of Shallum the husband of the prophetess Huldah. (2 Kings 22:14) (B.C. before 632.) + The father of Jahaziah. (Ezra 10:15)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
hope; a little line; congregation
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 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.
