# הַוָּה (havah)

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

Strong’s H1942. 16 Old Testament occurrences.

by implication, of falling); desire; also ruin

King James renderings: calamity, iniquity, mischief, mischievous (thing), naughtiness, naughty, noisome, perverse thing, substance, very wickedness.

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/havah-h1942

## Occurrences

- [Job 6:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/6/2) — Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
- [Job 6:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/6/30) — Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
- [Job 30:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/30/13) — They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
- [Psalms 5:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/5/9) — For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with the…
- [Psalms 38:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/38/12) — They 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 l…
- [Psalms 52:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/52/2) — Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
- [Psalms 52:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/52/7) — Lo, 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 55:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/55/11) — Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
- [Psalms 57:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/57/1) — 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…
- [Psalms 91:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/91/3) — Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
- [Psalms 94:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/94/20) — Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
- [Proverbs 10:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/10/3) — The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
- [Proverbs 11:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/11/6) — The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
- [Proverbs 17:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/17/4) — A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.
- [Proverbs 19:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/19/13) — A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
- [Micah 7:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/7/3) — That 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 m…