'Wish' in the Bible

Nor shall you offer as the food of your God any such [animals obtained] from a foreigner, because their corruption and blemish makes them unfit; there is a defect in them, they shall not be accepted for you.’”

Then Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have made a mockery of me! If there had been a sword in my hand, I would have killed you by now!”

Now it came about that when Achsah came to Othniel, she persuaded him [to allow her] to ask her father for a field. Then she [rode up to Caleb and] dismounted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you want?”

So Bathsheba bowed down and paid respect to the king. And the king said, “What do you wish?”

So Hiram sent word to Solomon, saying, “I have heard the message which you sent to me; I will do everything you wish concerning the cedar and cypress timber.

“I wish that it would please God to crush me,That He would let loose His hand and cut me off.

“But I wish to speak to the Almighty,And I desire to argue with God.

“So shall it be told Him that I wish to speak?Or should a man say that he would be swallowed up [and destroyed by God]?

Let those be ashamed and humiliated togetherWho seek my life to destroy it;Let those be turned back [in defeat] and dishonoredWho delight in my hurt.

Their eye bulges from fatness [they have more than the heart desires];The imaginations of their mind run riot [with foolishness].

She is more precious than rubies;And nothing you can wish for compares with her [in value].