תְּשׁוּקָה
desire
also: longing, craving 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
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H8669 appears — 3 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.
Genesis 2 verses
- Genesis 3:16 תְּשׁ֣וּקָתֵ֔/ךְ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2fs To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
- Genesis 4:7 תְּשׁ֣וּקָת֔/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms If you do well, will it not be lifted up? If you don't do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it."
Song of Solomon 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.
תשוקה (tᵉshûwqâh) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “desire.” With only 3 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. It clusters heavily in Genesis, which alone accounts for 67% of its uses. Scripture first uses it in Genesis 3:16. Ranging over 4 senses, its meaning includes “longing” and “craving”. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8669 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 2 verses 67%
- Song of Solomon 1 verse 33%
By section of the Old Testament
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 3 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 67%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 33%
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: Desire 2×
- American Standard Version: 's and his desire is toward me 1×, Desire 1×, Thee shall be its desire 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Desire 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Desire 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8669 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 H8669 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8669 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8669 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.
Senses in BDB
The 4 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- desire, longing, craving
- of man for woman
- of woman for man
- of beast to devour
Word origin
Derived from שוק (shûwq) (H7783) — to overflow.
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.
תּשׁוּקָה
- desire. Gen. R. s. 20 אין תְּשׁוּקָתָהּ של אשה וכ׳ the wife’s longing is for her husband (Gen. III, 16) אין תְּשׁוּקָתוֹ של יצר וכ׳ the tempter longs for Cain and the like of him (ib. IV, 7); אין תְּשׁוּקָתָן של the rains long for the earth (Ps. LXV, 10); ואין תשוקתו של הקב"ה וכ׳ and the Lord longs for Israel (Cant. VII, 11). Ib. תשובי לתְשׁוּקָתֵךְ return to thy desire; תשובי לתְשׁוּקַת אישך return to the desire for thy husband; a. e.—Pl. תְּשׁוּקוֹת. Ib. ארבע ת׳ הן וכ׳ there are four desires (four Biblical passages containing the word t’shuḳah or its root); Yalk. ib. 32. e.g. Genesis 3:16
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 3 distinct written forms H8669 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| תְּשׁ֣וּקָת֔/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Genesis 4:7 | 1 |
| תְּשׁ֣וּקָתֵ֔/ךְ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Genesis 3:16 | 1 |
| תְּשׁוּקָתֽ/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Song of Solomon 7:10 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8669, 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
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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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.
