# tikvah (תִּקְוָה)

pronounced: tik-VAH


**Hope — a cord drawn taut**

## In Scripture

> Behold, when we come into the land, you shall bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which you used to let us down. You shall gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household.
> — Joshua 2:18 (Tikvah in its literal sense — Rahab's scarlet cord, a hope you can hold)

> “For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.
> — Job 14:7 (The picture teachers reach for — hope as the felled stump that sprouts)


## How to read this entry

The definition comes from the IsraelForYou lexicon. Scripture quotations and their translation are named below; later tradition or modern usage is identified when it appears.


https://israelforyou.com/hebrew/tikvah/