Definition

by implication, of falling); desire; also ruin

Etymology

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

Where the KJV renders it

• calamity
• iniquity
• mischief
• mischievous (thing)
• naughtiness
• naughty
• noisome
• perverse thing
• substance
• very wickedness

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.