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Gematria of Covet

3 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “covet” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 69 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.

Hebrew equivalents
3
Occurrences
69
Distinct values
3

The 3 Hebrew words rendered “covet”

The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.

חָמַדchâmad×28 in the TanakhH2530

to delight in

Standard 52 →Gadol 52Katan 16Siduri (ordinal) 25Atbash 170Perati 1,680Milui 932

First appearance ·Genesis 2:9בראשית ב:טנֶחְמָד

See all 8 occurrences of the spelling חמד →

אָוָהʼâvâh×25 in the TanakhH183

to wish for

Standard 12 →Gadol 12Katan 12Siduri (ordinal) 12Atbash 570Perati 62Milui 130

First appearance ·Numbers 11:4במדבר יא:דהִתְאַוּוּ

See the one occurrence of the spelling אוה →

בָּצַעbâtsaʻ×16 in the TanakhH1214

figuratively, to finish, or (intransitively) stop

Standard 162 →Gadol 162Katan 18Siduri (ordinal) 36Atbash 312Perati 13,004Milui 646

First appearance ·Isaiah 10:12ישעיהו י:יביְבַצַּע

See all 19 occurrences of the spelling בצע →

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What is the gematria of covet?

The Tanakh renders “covet” with 3 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: חמד = 52, אוה = 12 and בצע = 162.

How do you say covet in Hebrew?

The Tanakh uses 3 Hebrew words for “covet”; the most frequent are חמד (châmad), 28 times; אוה (ʼâvâh), 25 times; בצע (bâtsaʻ), 16 times. Every one is listed on this page.

The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.