Tiqvah — Hope

Literally a 'cord' — the word for Rahab's scarlet thread is the word for hope: 'an expected end' in Jeremiah 29:11.

Tiqvah in the Bible — example verses

“Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household, home unto thee.”Joshua 2:18 (KJV)

“And she said, According unto your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.”Joshua 2:21 (KJV)

“Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;”Ruth 1:12 (KJV)

“Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?”Job 4:6 (KJV)

“So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.”Job 5:16 (KJV)

“Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!”Job 6:8 (KJV)

“My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.”Job 7:6 (KJV)

“So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:”Job 8:13 (KJV)

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