# תִּקְוָה (tiqvah) Israeli respelling: tiq-vah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H8615. 33 Old Testament occurrences. literally a cord (as an attachment); figuratively, expectancy King James renderings: expectation(-ted), hope, live, thing that I long for. Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/tiqvah-h8615 ## Occurrences - [Joshua 2:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/2/18) — Behold, 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 sha… - [Joshua 2:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/2/21) — And 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. - [Ruth 1:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ruth/1/12) — Turn 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… - [Job 4:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/4/6) — Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways? - [Job 5:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/5/16) — So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth. - [Job 6:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/6/8) — Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! - [Job 7:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/7/6) — My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope. - [Job 8:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/8/13) — So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish: - [Job 11:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/11/18) — And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety. - [Job 11:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/11/20) — But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost. - [Job 14:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/14/7) — For 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. - [Job 14:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/14/19) — The 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. - [Job 17:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/17/15) — And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it? - [Job 19:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/19/10) — He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree. - [Job 27:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/27/8) — For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul? - [Psalms 9:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/9/18) — For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever. - [Psalms 62:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/62/5) — My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him. - [Psalms 71:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/71/5) — For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth. - [Proverbs 10:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/10/28) — The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish. - [Proverbs 11:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/11/7) — When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth. - [Proverbs 11:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/11/23) — The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath. - [Proverbs 19:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/19/18) — Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying. - [Proverbs 23:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/23/18) — For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off. - [Proverbs 24:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/24/14) — So 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… - [Proverbs 26:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/26/12) — Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him. - [Proverbs 29:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/29/20) — Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him. - [Jeremiah 29:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/29/11) — For 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. - [Jeremiah 31:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/31/17) — And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border. - [Lamentations 3:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/3/29) — He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope. - [Ezekiel 19:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/19/5) — Now 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. - [Ezekiel 37:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/37/11) — Then 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: w… - [Hosea 2:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/2/15) — And 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… - [Zechariah 9:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/9/12) — Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;