Lexical Definition

‎מִקְוֶה‎ miqveh (mik-veh') Kue ^N:N--L
or מִקְוֵה miqvêh (mik-vay'); (1 Kings 10:28), or מִקְוֵא miqvêʼ (mik-vay'); (2 Chronicles 1:16), from ‎קָוָה‎

abiding, gathering together, hope, linen yarn, plenty (of water), pool.

• something waited for, i.e. confidence (objective or subjective)
• also a collection, i.e. (of water) a pond, or (of men and horses) a caravan or drove

n m
1) hope
1a) hope
1b) ground of hope
1c) things hoped for, outcome
2) collection, collected mass
n pr m
3) (CLBL) Kue, a place in Cilicia from which Solomon imported horses

See Greek: συναγωγή · συνιστάω · ὑπομονή

Extended Information

• collection, collected mass

Brown-Driver-Briggs

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

‎קֹוֶה‎, or ‎קֹוֵא‎ proper name, of a territory Kuë in Cilicia (compare KAT^{2. 257}); ‎מִקֹוֶה‎ from Kuë, for ᵑ0 ‎מִקְוֵה‎ 1Kgs 10:28 (twice in verse) and || ‎מִקְוֵא‎ 2Chr 1:16 (twice in verse); so Wkl^{Alttest. Unters. 173} Gr Benz Kit, compare ᵐ5 ἐκ Θεκουε (also ἐκ Κωα Field^{Hexapla i. 616}), ᵑ9 de Coa, Κωδ Lag^{Onom. 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

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