1. desire, longing, craving — The feminine noun אַוָּה meaning 'desire, longing, craving', often in construct chains ('desire of') denoting strong want or appetite. All 7 occurrences express the same semantic concept of intense wanting, with variation only in grammatical frame (construct state vs. pronominal suffix). Multilingual evidence: eng 'desire', spa 'deseo', hin इच्छा / चाहत, arb شَهْوَة / رَغبَة, kor 소원 / 욕망, swa 'tamaa/shauku/hamu'. The 1cs suffixed form (S80463 'my desire') adds only possessive morphology, not a new sense. 7×
AR["بِرَغبَتي","شَهْوَةِ","فِي-شَهْوَةِ"]·ben["আকাঙ্ক্ষা","আকাঙ্ক্ষায়","আমার-ইচ্ছায়","ইচ্ছা","ইচ্ছায়","কামনায়-"]·DE["[באות]","desire-von","in-mich"]·EN["desire-of","in-my-desire","in-the-desire"]·FR["[באות]","desire-de","désir","désir-de"]·heb["אוות","ב-אוות","ב-אוותי"]·HI["इच्छा","इच्छा-में","चाहत-में-मेरी"]·ID["dalam-nafsu","keinginan"]·IT["[באות]","[באותי]","desiderio-di","desire-di"]·jav["ing-kekarepan-Kawula","ing-pepinginan","kekajengan-","pepinginan"]·KO["나의-소원에서","소원","소원으로","소원을","욕망-에서"]·PT["Em-desejo-meu","desejo-de","desejo-de-","no-desejo-de"]·RU["в-желании","жаждой","желанию","по-желанию-Моему"]·ES["deseo-de","el-deseo-de","en-el-deseo-de","en-mi-deseo"]·SW["hamu-ya","katika-hamu-yangu","katika-tamaa-ya","shauku-ya","tamaa-ya"]·TR["arzumda","arzusuyla","arzusuyla-","isteğine"]·urd["-آرزو","-آرزو-کے-مطابق","آرزو","خواہش","شہوت-میں","میری-خواہش-میں"]
Senses
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [אַוָּה] n.f. desire—cstr. אַוַּת Dt 12:15 + 5 times; sf. אַוָּתִי Ho 10:10—desire, will, usually sq. נֶפֶשׁ; of natural human desire (morally indiff.), for meat Dt 12:15, 20, 21; of longing for sanctuary 18:6; of royal good pleasure 1 S 23:20; without נֶפֶשׁ, of wild-ass Je 2:24; of divine will Ho 10:10.