Tim Mackie

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Desire.

It's a great English word for it.

It's the ideal English word, really.

So it's that impulse.

You see something.

You have seen something.

Maybe it's not the moment of encountering it, but once you are aware of something and you... Well, we'll talk about what it excites inside you, but one thing it excites is an impulse to possess it.

That feeling that is universal to human beings.

is called chamad.

This other word that's used in Deuteronomy, hitaveh, specifically is connected to like physical appetites.

So here's just a couple examples just to upload it real quick.

So when the Israelites are wandering in the wilderness and they're hungry and we're told that a mixed multitude or the rabble, likely a

Reference to the non-Israelites who came with the Israelites up out of Egypt.

We're not sure.

But we're told is that they began to crave a craving.

That's NIV?

NIV, yeah.

Crave a craving.

Yeah, and then the Israelites started wailing and said, Oh, if only we had meat to eat.