Words

חָמַד H2530

Home gloss

desire; niphal participle desirable

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

pleasant / pleasant

Note

3:6 "desirable for having insight"; Exod 20:17 "you shall not desire"; Ps 19:11 "more desirable than gold." "Covet" would put a fault in the word it does not always have (Ps 68:17, the mountain Elohim desired) (57). מַחֲמַדִּים "desirable things" (Lam 1) is the same root. תַּאֲוָה (3:6) needs another word

Rulings

2, 57

Occurrences (2)

Genesis 2

• 2:9 And Elohim made spring up from the ground every tree desirable to the sight and good for fare, and the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of knowing good and bad.

Genesis 3

• 3:6 And the woman saw that the tree was good for fare, and that it was a craving to the eyes, and the tree was desirable for having insight; and she took from its fruit and ate, and she gave also to her man with her, and he ate.