H5691 H5691
lustfulness, inordinate desire
A feminine noun denoting lustful craving or inordinate passion, used in Ezekiel's allegory of Jerusalem's adultery. The prophet describes personified Jerusalem as exceeding even her 'sister' Samaria in her lustfulness and harlotry. The word is parallel to 'fornications,' emphasizing the intensity and perversity of Judah's idolatry portrayed as sexual unfaithfulness.
Senses
1. sense 1 — The lustful passion of personified Jerusalem in Ezekiel 23:11, where the prophet accuses Judah of surpassing Samaria in spiritual adultery. 'She became more corrupt than her sister in her lust and in her harlotries'—the Hebrew term emphasizes intense, degrading craving. The parallel with 'harlotries' reinforces the image of covenant unfaithfulness as compulsive sexual betrayal. 1×
AR["عِشْقَهَا"]·ben["কামনা-তার"]·DE["[עגבתה]"]·EN["her-lust"]·FR["désir"]·heb["עגבתה"]·HI["अपनी-लालसा"]·ID["nafsunya"]·IT["[עגבתה]"]·jav["kasmaranipun"]·KO["그녀의-열망을"]·PT["sua-paixão"]·RU["и-развратила"]·ES["pasión-de-ella"]·SW["tamaa-yake"]·TR["tutkunluğunu"]·urd["شہوت-اپنی"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [עֲגָבָה] n.f. lustfulness;—sf. עַגְבָתָהּ Ez 23:11 (of personif. Jerus.; ‖ תַּזְנוּתֶיהָ).