Strong’s H1942 · Hebrew
הַוָּה
havvâh · hav-vaw'
Origin from הָוָא (H1933) (in the sense of eagerly coveting and rushing upon;
Meaning by implication, of falling); desire; also ruin
In the King James Version calamity, iniquity, mischief, mischievous (thing), naughtiness, naughty, noisome, perverse thing, substance, very wickedness.
In 16 verses of the King James Version
- Job 6:2Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
- Job 6:30Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
- Job 30:13They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
- Psalms 5:9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
- Psalms 38:12They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
- Psalms 52:2Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.
- Psalms 52:7Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
- Psalms 55:11Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
- Psalms 57:1To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave. Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
- Psalms 91:3Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
- Psalms 94:20Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
- Proverbs 10:3The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
- Proverbs 11:6The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
- Proverbs 17:4A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
- Proverbs 19:13A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
- Micah 7:3That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.