Lexical Summary taab or taeb: to long for Original Word: תָּאַבTransliteration: taab or taeb Phonetic Spelling: (taw-ab') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to long for Meaning: to long for Strong's Concordance long A primitive root; to desire -- long. Brown-Driver-Briggs H8373. taab or taeb I. [תָּאֵב תָּאֵב,] verb long for (Late Hebrew id., תִּיאֲבוֺן desire; Aramaic תְּאִיב תְּאֵב, long for; ? secondary √ from אָבָה, or denominative from תַּאֲבָה, and this from אבה, compare Buhl; but see Ol§ 137); — Qal Perfect1singular תִּאַ֫בְתִּי, with ל thing, Psalm 119:40; 119:174. |