# אַוָּה (avah)

Israeli respelling: a-vah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H185. 7 Old Testament occurrences.

longing

King James renderings: desire, lust after, pleasure.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/avah-h185

## Occurrences

- [Deuteronomy 12:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/12/15) — Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD t…
- [Deuteronomy 12:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/12/20) — When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to…
- [Deuteronomy 12:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/12/21) — If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flo…
- [Deuteronomy 18:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/18/6) — And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place w…
- [1 Samuel 23:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/23/20) — Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him into the king’s…
- [Jeremiah 2:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/2/24) — A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her…
- [Hosea 10:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/10/10) — It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two…