H1942 הַוָּה
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 16 KJV occurrences
הַוָּה
havvâh · hav-vaw'
Definition
by implication, of falling); desire; also ruin
KJV Renderings
calamity, iniquity, mischief, mischievous (thing), naughtiness, naughty, noisome, perverse thing, substance, very wickedness.
Derivation / Etymology
from H1933 (הָוָא) (in the sense of eagerly coveting and rushing upon;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 16)
- Job 6:2Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
- Job 30:13They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
- 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 52:7Lo, 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 57:1Be 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 94:20Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
- Proverbs 11:6The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
- Proverbs 19:13A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.