Strong's Hebrew · H8615
תִּקְוָה
tiqvâh · tik-vaw'
Definitionliterally a cord (as an attachment); figuratively, expectancy
Derivationfrom H6960 (קָוָה); (compare H6961 (קָוֶה))
KJV usageexpectation(-ted), hope, live, thing that I long for.
Occurrences34 in the KJV · 33 verses
תִּקְוָה in Scripture
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 shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father' s household, home unto thee.
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
Turn again, my daughters, go your way ; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have a husband also tonight, and should also bear sons;
Job 4:6
Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
Job 5:16
So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
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
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Job 8:13
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite' s hope shall perish:
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
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
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
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.
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