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Strong’s H8615 · Hebrew

תִּקְוָה

tiqvâh · tik-vaw'

Origin from קָוָה (H6960); (compare קָוֶה (H6961))

Meaning literally a cord (as an attachment); figuratively, expectancy

In the King James Version expectation(-ted), hope, live, thing that I long for.

In 33 verses of the King James Version

  1. Joshua 2:18Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father’s household, home unto thee.
  2. Joshua 2:21And she said, According unto your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.
  3. Ruth 1:12Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;
  4. Job 4:6Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
  5. Job 5:16So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
  6. Job 6:8Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
  7. Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
  8. Job 8:13So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:
  9. Job 11:18And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.
  10. Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
  11. Job 14:7For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
  12. Job 14:19The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
  13. Job 17:15And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
  14. Job 19:10He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
  15. Job 27:8For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
  16. Psalms 9:18For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
  17. Psalms 62:5My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.
  18. Psalms 71:5For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth.
  19. Proverbs 10:28The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
  20. Proverbs 11:7When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.
  21. Proverbs 11:23The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
  22. Proverbs 19:18Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
  23. Proverbs 23:18For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
  24. Proverbs 24:14So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.
  25. Proverbs 26:12Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
  26. Proverbs 29:20Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
  27. Jeremiah 29:11For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
  28. Jeremiah 31:17And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.
  29. Lamentations 3:29He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
  30. Ezekiel 19:5Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
  31. Ezekiel 37:11Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
  32. Hosea 2:15And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
  33. Zechariah 9:12Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;

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.

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