desire
chem.dah denotes what is desired or valued, including prized objects, a land, and an expressed object of desire.
The term most often identifies valued or prized things, especially articles, vessels, images, and houses; it also characterizes land as desirable and occurs in phrases concerning an object of desire whose precise referent is sometimes left unclear by the verse.
Senses in use
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Valued possessions or things · dominant
In 2 Chronicles 32:27, the absolute form occurs among Hezekiah's treasuries and the APB renders the clause "for all articles of desire." Construct forms occur with articles taken to Babylon in 2 Chronicles 36:10 and with silver and gold articles carried into captivity in Daniel 11:8; Ezekiel 26:12 likewise places the form in the phrase the APB renders "the houses of your desire."
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A desirable land or portion · common
The absolute form describes land in Psalm 106:24, where the APB renders "the land of desire," and in Jeremiah 3:19, rendered "a desirable land." In Jeremiah 12:10, the construct form occurs in the devastated "portion of my desire," while Zechariah 7:14 contrasts a desirable land with the waste it became.
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An object of desire in a phrase · occasional
In Daniel 11:37, the construct form appears in the list of things for which he will show no regard, including what the APB renders "the desire of women." Haggai 2:7 uses a construct form in the clause "the desire of all the nations will come"; 1 Samuel 9:20 asks, "for whom is all the desire of Israel?" The precise referent in these phrases is not isolated by the translation.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the term through "articles of desire," "desirable," and "desire," depending on the verse's phrase. These renderings show the clause-level presentation rather than a fixed English equivalent.