Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
cord
Usage: cord
Tiqvah means “hope” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H8615 תִּקוָה (tiqvah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. tiqvah (tik-vaw') n-f. 1. (literally) a cord (as an attachment) 2. (figuratively) expectancy It has 33 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include hope, expectation, and thing. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
tiqvah (tik-vaw') n-f. 1. (literally) a cord (as an attachment) 2. (figuratively) expectancy [from H6960] KJV: expectation ((-ted)), hope, live, thing that I long for. Root(s): H6960 Compare: H6961
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cord
Usage: cord
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render tiqvah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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33 indexed usages in Old Testament.
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.
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.
Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;
First 33 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H8615.
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.
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.
Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;
Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.
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.
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.
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.
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.
For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth.
The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.
The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border.
He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H8615, grouped by book.
Tiqvah (Strong's H8615) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "hope". tiqvah (tik-vaw') n-f. 1. (literally) a cord (as an attachment) 2. (figuratively) expectancy
This page currently indexes 33 linked usages for Strong's H8615 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H8615 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as hope, expectation, and thing. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.