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essential consonants hmd, and common to all the Semitic
dialects, everywhere in the Sacred Writ of the Hebrews sig-
nifies: "to covet, fall in love, long for, take pleasure and
delight in," and "to desire ardently." Those who know
Arabic will naturally understand the comprehensive sense of
the word Shahwat, which is rendered in English as "lust,
cupidity, ardent desire, and appetite." Well, this is the
precise sense and signification of the verb "hamad" in the
Hebrew Scriptures. One of the commands in the famous
Decalogue of the Torah (Arabic "Taurat") or the Law con-
tains this clause: "Lo tahmod ish reikha" - "Thou shalt not
covet the wife of thy neighbor" (Exod. xx. 17.)
(b) Hemed. The substantive in the masculine gen-
der, and "Himdah" in the feminine, signifies: "lust, desire,
pleasantness, delight, object of longing and of desire, loveli-
ness" (Hag. ii. 7; Jerem. xxv. 34, etc.).
dialects, everywhere in the Sacred Writ of the Hebrews sig-
nifies: "to covet, fall in love, long for, take pleasure and
delight in," and "to desire ardently." Those who know
Arabic will naturally understand the comprehensive sense of
the word Shahwat, which is rendered in English as "lust,
cupidity, ardent desire, and appetite." Well, this is the
precise sense and signification of the verb "hamad" in the
Hebrew Scriptures. One of the commands in the famous
Decalogue of the Torah (Arabic "Taurat") or the Law con-
tains this clause: "Lo tahmod ish reikha" - "Thou shalt not
covet the wife of thy neighbor" (Exod. xx. 17.)
(b) Hemed. The substantive in the masculine gen-
der, and "Himdah" in the feminine, signifies: "lust, desire,
pleasantness, delight, object of longing and of desire, loveli-
ness" (Hag. ii. 7; Jerem. xxv. 34, etc.).