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Hebrew-Aramaic
H157

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Original: אהב אהב
Transliteration: ahab aheb ('âhab 'âhêb)
Phonetic: aw-hab'
BDB Definition:
  1. to love
    1. (Qal)
      1. human love for another, includes family, and sexual
      2. human appetite for objects such as food, drink, sleep, wisdom
      3. human love for or to God
      4. act of being a friend
        1. lover (participle)
        2. friend (participle)
      5. God's love toward man
        1. to individual men
        2. to people Israel
        3. to righteousness
    2. (Niphal)
      1. lovely (participle)
      2. loveable (participle)
    3. (Piel)
      1. friends
      2. lovers (figuratively of adulterers)
  2. to like
Origin: a primitive root
TWOT entry: 29
Part(s) of speech: Verb
Strong's Definition: A primitive root; to have affection for (sexually or otherwise): - (be-) love (-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.
Occurrences in the (KJV) King James Version:
All Occurrences (208x)
1
A Friend (1x)
2
A Lover (1x)
3
After Her Lovers (1x)
4
All Them That Love (1x)
5
All Thy Lovers (2x)
6
Also Loveth (1x)
7
Among All Her Lovers (1x)
8
Among You, And Thou Shalt Love (1x)
9
And All His Friends (2x)
10
And Because He Loved (1x)
11
And He Loved (3x)
12
And He Will Love (2x)
13
And Him That Loveth (1x)
14
And I Have Loved (1x)
15
And I Love (1x)
16
And Love (5x)
17
And Loveth (1x)
18
And They Love (1x)
19
And They That Love (1x)
20
And Thou Shalt Love (1x)
21
And Thy Lovers (1x)
22
And To Love (1x)
23
As He Loved (1x)
24
Beloved (2x)
25
But He Loveth (1x)
26
But He That Loveth (1x)
27
But Thou Shalt Love (1x)
28
Do I Love (2x)
29
Do Love (1x)
30
Every One Loveth (1x)
31
For All Thy Lovers (1x)
32
For He Loved (2x)
33
For His Friends (1x)
34
For My Lovers (1x)
35
For Them That Love (1x)
36
Friends (1x)
37
From Thee; Because He Loveth (1x)
38
Hath Loved (1x)
39
Have They Which Love (1x)
40
He Loveth (3x)
41
He That Loveth (4x)
42
Her Lovers (1x)
43
Him, And To Love (1x)
44
Him: And He Loved (1x)
45
Him: For He Loved (1x)
46
How I Love (1x)
47
I Have Loved (2x)
48
I Love (5x)
49
I Will Love (1x)
50
In That Thou Lovest (1x)
51
In Thee: And Let Such As Love (1x)
52
In Thee: Let Such As Love (1x)
53
It: And They That Love (1x)
54
Like Him, Who Was Beloved (1x)
55
Liketh (1x)
56
Love (8x)
57
Loved (17x)
58
Lovely (1x)
59
Lover (1x)
60
Loveth (19x)
61
Loving (1x)
62
Me Love (1x)
63
Me, And Lovest (1x)
64
Me: And They Whom I Loved (1x)
65
My Friend (1x)
66
My Lovers (2x)
67
No; For I Have Loved (1x)
68
Nor He That Loveth (1x)
69
O How Love I (1x)
70
O Love (1x)
71
Of A Friend (1x)
72
Of Her Lovers (2x)
73
Of My Friends (1x)
74
Of The Beloved (1x)
75
Of Them That Love (2x)
76
On Her Lovers (1x)
77
Such As He Loveth (1x)
78
That He Loved (1x)
79
That I May Cause Those That Love (1x)
80
That Love (1x)
81
That Loveth (1x)
82
That My Lovers (1x)
83
That Thou Hast Loved (1x)
84
That Thou Mayest Love (1x)
85
That Ye Love (1x)
86
The Beloved (1x)
87
Thee: Love (1x)
88
Them That Love (2x)
89
Them, To Love (1x)
90
Them: Let Them Also That Love (1x)
91
Then I Loved (1x)
92
There, Thou, And All Thy Friends (1x)
93
Therefore I Love (2x)
94
Therefore Love (1x)
95
Therefore Thou Shalt Love (1x)
96
Thou Hast Loved (1x)
97
Thou Lovest (3x)
98
Thus Have They Loved (1x)
99
Thy Friend (1x)
100
Thy Friends (1x)
101
Thy Lovers (1x)
102
To All Thy Lovers (1x)
103
To Do Unto Those That Love (1x)
104
To Love (6x)
105
To Them That Love (1x)
106
To Thyself, And To All Thy Friends (1x)
107
Unto Him, I Love (1x)
108
Unto These In Love (1x)
109
Were According As They Loved (1x)
110
Wherein Hast Thou Loved (1x)
111
Wherewith He Had Loved (1x)
112
Which He Loved (2x)
113
Which I Have Loved (2x)
114
Which Loveth (1x)
115
Whom He Loved (1x)
116
Whom They Have Loved (1x)
117
Whom Thou Lovest (2x)
118
Whoso Loveth (1x)
119
Will Love (1x)
120
Will Ye Love (2x)
121
With Her, All Ye That Love (1x)
122
With Them That Love (1x)
123
With Them; Thou Lovedst (1x)
124
With Thy Lovers (1x)
125
Ye That Love (1x)
126
Yea, I Have Loved (1x)
127
Yet I Loved (1x)
128
Yet, Love (1x)
129
You, To Love (1x)
All Occurrences
Proverbs 21:17
He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.(g)
Proverbs 22:11
He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.(h)
Proverbs 27:6
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.(e)
Proverbs 29:3
Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.
Ecclesiastes 3:8
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Ecclesiastes 5:10
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Ecclesiastes 9:9
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.(b)
Song of Solomon 1:3
Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
Song of Solomon 1:4
Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.(b)
Song of Solomon 1:7
Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?(c)
Song of Solomon 3:1
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
Song of Solomon 3:2
I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
Song of Solomon 3:3
The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
Song of Solomon 3:4
It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
Isaiah 1:23
Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
Isaiah 41:8
But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
Isaiah 43:4
Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.(a)
Isaiah 48:14
All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The Lord hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.
Isaiah 56:6
Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord , to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord , to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.(c)
Isaiah 57:8
Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.(f) (g)
Isaiah 61:8
For I the Lord love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Isaiah 66:10
Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:
Jeremiah 2:25
Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.(m)
Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?(g)
Jeremiah 8:2
And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
Jeremiah 14:10
Thus saith the Lord unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the Lord doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
Jeremiah 20:4
For thus saith the Lord , Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.
Jeremiah 20:6
And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.
Jeremiah 22:20
Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.
Jeremiah 22:22
The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.
Jeremiah 30:14
All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.
Jeremiah 31:3
The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.(a) (b)

Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

All of the original Hebrew and Aramaic words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. In some cases more than one form of the word — such as the masculine and feminine forms of a noun — may be listed.

Each entry is a Hebrew word, unless it is designated as Aramaic. Immediately after each word is given its equivalent in English letters, according to a system of transliteration. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (TWOT), by R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke. This section makes an association between the unique number used by TWOT with the Strong's number.

Thayers Information

All of the original Greek words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. The Strong's numbering system arranges most Greek words by their alphabetical order. This renders reference easy without recourse to the Greek characters. In some cases more than one form of the word - such as the masculine, feminine, and neuter forms of a noun - may be listed.

Immediately after each word is given its exact equivalent in English letters, according to the system of transliteration laid down in the scheme here following. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Thayer's Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in the ten-volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (TDNT), edited by Gerhard Kittel. Both volume and page numbers cite where the word may be found.

The presence of an asterisk indicates that the corresponding entry in the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament may appear in a different form than that displayed in Thayers' Greek Definitions.

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Dictionaries of Hebrew and Greek Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890.

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