H4723B

מִקְוֶה

miq.vehH:N-M

hope

1) hope 1a) hope 1b) ground of hope 1c) things hoped for, outcome

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

קוא only in מִקְוֵא see II. מִקְוֶה below II. קוה.



קֹוֶה, or קֹוֵא proper name, of a territory Kuë in Cilicia (compare KAT2. 257); מִקֹוֶה from Kuë, for ᵑ0 מִקְוֵה 1Kgs 10:28 (twice in verse) and || מִקְוֵא 2Chr 1:16 (twice in verse); so WklAlttest. Unters. 173 Gr Benz Kit, compare ᵐ5 ἐκ Θεκουε (also ἐκ Κωα FieldHexapla i. 616), ᵑ9 de Coa, Κωδ LagOnom. 273, Jerome Coa Id.ibid. 111.



I. מִקְוֶה noun [masculine] hope; — absolute ׳מ 1Chr 29:15; Ezra 10:2 construct in phrase מִקְוֵה יִשְׂרָאֵל, epithet of ׳י Jer 14:8; Jer 17:13, compare Jer 50:7.



II. [מִקְוֶה] noun [masculine] collection, collected mass (P); — construct מִקְוֵךְ Gen 1:10 (מִקְוֶה also vGen 1:9, for מָקוֺם according to ᵐ5 Ball), Exod 7:19; Lev 11:36, all of water. ֯ ׳מ 1Kgs 10:28 (twice in verse) = מִקְוֵא 2Chr 1:16 (company of merchants; drove of houses), see קֹוֶה


4 occurrences

Ezra (1), Jeremiah (3)