Strong’s H3970 · Hebrew
מַאֲוַי
maʼăvay
mah-av-ah'ee
Definition
a desire
Etymology
from H183 (אָוָה);
Word family
How the KJV renders it
- desire
Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.