# H8615 תִּקְוָה

תִּקְוָה (tiqvâh), Strong’s H8615: literally a cord (as an attachment); figuratively, expectancy KJV: expectation(-ted), hope, live, thing that I long for.. Occurs 34 times.

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*tiqvâh* — literally a cord (as an attachment); figuratively, expectancy

KJV: expectation(-ted), hope, live, thing that I long for.

Derived from [קָוָה qâvâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H6960) (to bind together)

Occurs 34 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- תִּקְוָה 34 n.f. hope
- 1 hope
- 2 = ground of hope
- 3 things hoped for, outcome
- תִּקְוָה n.f
- [תִּקְוָה] n.f. cord

## Where it occurs
- [Joshua 2:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/2?v=18) — Behold, when we come into the land, tie this line of scarlet thread in the window which you used to let us down. Gather…
- [Joshua 2:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/2?v=21) — She said, “Let it be as you have said.” She sent them away, and they departed. Then she tied the scarlet line in the…
- [Jeremiah 29:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/29?v=11) — For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says the LORD, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope…
- [Jeremiah 31:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/31?v=17) — There is hope for your latter end,” says the LORD. “Your children will come again to their own territory.
- [Ezekiel 19:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/19?v=5) — “‘Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young…
- [Ezekiel 37:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/37?v=11) — Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up…
- [Hosea 2:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/hosea/2?v=17) — I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there as in the…
- [Zechariah 9:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/zechariah/9?v=12) — Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.
- [Psalms 9:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/9?v=19) — For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.
- [Psalms 62:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/62?v=6) — My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.