# H14 אָבָה

אָבָה (ʼâbâh), Strong’s H14: to breathe after, i.e. (figuratively) to be acquiescent KJV: consent, rest content will, be willing.. Occurs 54 times.

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*ʼâbâh* — to breathe after, i.e. (figuratively) to be acquiescent

KJV: consent, rest content will, be willing.

Occurs 54 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- אָבָה vb. be willing, consent (cf. As., command, Dl W, Eth. refuse, Ar., id., Nejd be willing So De Jes 3, p. 26; LCB 1880, 817)—
- Qal (c. לֹא, אַל exc. Is 1:19 Jb 39:9; in Hex. rare & Only JED, incl. Lv 26:21); Pf. אָבָה Ex 10:27 + אָבוּ Ju 19:25 + 7 t.; אָבוּא Is 28:12 (Sta § 31 R.2; Kö I, 414); Impf. יֹאבֶה Dt 29:19 + 2 t.; 2 ms. juss. תֹּבֵֽא Pr 1:10 (Sta § 143 e 1 nn; Kö I, 578 f) etc.; Pt. אֹבִים Ez 3:7;—be willing, sq. Inf. with ל Ex 10:27 + 29 t.; without ל Dt 2:30 + 8 t.; subj. י׳ Dt 10:10 23:6 29:19 Jos 24:10 2 K 8:19 13:23 24:4 2 Ch 21:7; human subj. Gn 24:5, 8 Ju 19:10 2 S 2:21 13:2514:29, 29 23:16, 17 = 1 Ch 11:18, 19 1 Ch 19:19; in bad sense Ex 10:27 Dt 2:30 25:7 Ju 19:25 20:13 2 S 13:14, 16;esp. of perverse Isr. Lv 26:21 Dt 1:26 I S 15:9 Is 28:12 30:9 42:24 Ez 3:7, 7 20:8; subj. animal, רֵּים Jb 39:9; abs. (no Inf.) 2 S 12:17 1 K 20:8 22:50; cf. Pr 6:35, of jealous man; bad sense Ju 11:17 Is 30:15; good sense I S 22:17 26:23 31:4 = 1 Ch 10:4 2 S 6:10 Pr 1:10; + vb. fin. Is 1:19 (אִם תֹּאבוּ וּשְׁמַעְתֶּם); consent, yield to, sq. לַעֲצָתִי Pr 1:30; sq. acc. תוֹכַחְתִּי v 25 (all in bad sense).

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 24:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=5) — The servant said to him, “What if the woman isn’t willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the…
- [Genesis 24:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=8) — If the woman isn’t willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this oath to me. Only you shall not bring my son…
- [Exodus 10:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/10?v=27) — But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he wouldn’t let them go.
- [Leviticus 26:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/26?v=21) — “‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to…
- [Deuteronomy 1:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/1?v=26) — Yet you wouldn’t go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God.
- [Deuteronomy 2:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/2?v=30) — But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for the LORD your God hardened his spirit and made his heart…
- [Deuteronomy 10:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/10?v=10) — I stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD listened to me that time…
- [Deuteronomy 13:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/13?v=9) — you shall not consent to him nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall…
- [Deuteronomy 23:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/23?v=6) — Nevertheless the LORD your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam, but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing to…
- [Deuteronomy 25:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/25?v=7) — If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and…