אבה

אָבָה, אָבֵי • (transliteration needed)

1. to be willing

• Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons

Inherited from Proto-Semitic *ʔabay-. Compare Akkadian 𒁍𒀪𒄿𒌈 (bu-ʾ-i-tum /⁠buʾītu⁠/, “a thing wished, willed, desired”), Arabic أَبَى (ʔabā, “he rejected, refused, was unwilling, unwilling to do otherwise; originally to hold back, to desire to stay or wish to remain”) and the root ء ب ب (ʔ b b, “to prepare to go out for”) in the phrase أَبَّ إِلَى (ʔabba ʔilā, “to long after, to want to go forth to, to yearn or have a desire to go to something”), Egyptian ꜣbj (“to desire, to want, to be happy”) and ꜣb (“to take a break, to tarry or stay awhile, to refuse to go”).

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)aˈva/
• (Biblical Hebrew, Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ʔɔˈvɔː/

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אָבָה • (ava) third-singular masculine past (pa'al construction)

1. to be willing
   • Exodus 10:27

     וַיְחַזֵּק יְהוָה אֶת־לֵב פַּרְעֹה וְלֹא אָבָה לְשַׁלְּחָֽם׃

     vaykhazek hashem et lev par'o v'lo ava l'shal'kham.

     But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he was not willing to let them go.

• אֲבוֹי (avoy)[1]

• אהב, באה, הבא