הַוָּה havvâh

Meaning

by implication, of falling); desire; also ruin

In the King James Version: calamity, iniquity, mischief, mischievous (thing), naughtiness, naughty, noisome, perverse thing, substance, very wickedness.

Derivation: from H1933 (הָוָא) (in the sense of eagerly coveting and rushing upon;

Where it is used

• Job 6:2 “If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
• Job 6:30 Is there iniquity on my tongue? Can my mouth not discern malice?
• Job 30:13 They tear up my path; they profit from my destruction, with no one to restrain them.
• Psalms 5:9 For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.
• Psalms 38:12 Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long.
• Psalms 52:2 Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
• Psalms 52:7 “Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”
• Psalms 55:11 Destruction is within; oppression and deceit never leave the streets.
• Psalms 57:1 For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam of David, when he fled from Saul into the cave. Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy, for in You my soul takes refuge. In the shadow of Your wings I will take shelter until the danger has passed.
• Psalms 91:3 Surely He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly plague.
• Psalms 94:20 Can a corrupt throne be Your ally—one devising mischief by decree?
• Proverbs 10:3 The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry, but He denies the craving of the wicked.
• Proverbs 11:6 The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the faithless are trapped by their own desires.
• Proverbs 17:4 A wicked man listens to evil lips; a liar gives ear to a destructive tongue.
• Proverbs 19:13 A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.
• Micah 7:3 Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.