8615 - tiqvah

Strong's Concordance

Original word: תִּקְוָה
Transliteration: tiqvah
Definition (short): cord
Definition (full): a cord, expectancy

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

From qavah; literally, a cord (as an attachment (compare qaveh)); figuratively, expectancy -- expectation ((-ted)), hope, live, thing that I long for.

see HEBREW qavah

see HEBREW qaveh

KJV: 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.
NASB: unless, when we come into the land, you tie this cord of scarlet thread in the window through which you let us down, and gather to yourself into the house your father and your mother and your brothers and all your father's household.
KJV: 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.
NASB: She said, "According to your words, so be it." So she sent them away, and they departed; and she tied the scarlet cord in the window.
KJV: 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;
NASB: "Return, my daughters! Go, for I am too old to have a husband. If I said I have hope, if I should even have a husband tonight and also bear sons,
KJV: Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
NASB: "Is not your fear of God your confidence, And the integrity of your ways your hope?
KJV: So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
NASB: "So the helpless has hope, And unrighteousness must shut its mouth.