Word study · Hebrew
אָהֵב
a.havH0157to love: lover
Used 210 times in the tagged text.
H0157G · אָהֵב · to love: lover
What it means
- to love
- to like
Full dictionary entry (technical)
- : lover
- 1) to love
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) human love for another, includes family, and sexual
- 1a2) human appetite for objects such as food, drink, sleep, wisdom
- 1a3) human love for or to God
- 1a4) act of being a friend
- 1a4a) lover (participle)
- 1a4b) friend (participle)
- 1a5) God's love toward man
- 1a5a) to individual men
- 1a5b) to people Israel
- 1a5c) to righteousness
- 1b) (Niphal)
- 1b1) lovely (participle)
- 1b2) loveable (participle)
- 1c) (Piel)
- 1c1) friends
- 1c2) lovers (fig. of adulterers)
- 2) to like
- Also means: a.hav (אָהֵב ": friend" H0157H)
H0157H · אָהֵב · to love: friend
What it means
- to love
- to like
Full dictionary entry (technical)
- : friend
- 1) to love
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) human love for another, includes family, and sexual
- 1a2) human appetite for objects such as food, drink, sleep, wisdom
- 1a3) human love for or to God
- 1a4) act of being a friend
- 1a4a) lover (participle)
- 1a4b) friend (participle)
- 1a5) God's love toward man
- 1a5a) to individual men
- 1a5b) to people Israel
- 1a5c) to righteousness
- 1b) (Niphal)
- 1b1) lovely (participle)
- 1b2) loveable (participle)
- 1c) (Piel)
- 1c1) friends
- 1c2) lovers (fig. of adulterers)
- 2) to like
Same idea, other words · Love
Hebrew uses one common word for love; Greek has several. Agape is the word the New Testament chooses most for God's love and ours, without making it a lesser or higher love than other words in every verse.
- אָהֵבahav to love: loverto love, of people and of GodH0157
- ἀγαπάωagapaō to loveto love (verb)G0025
- ἀγάπηagapē lovelove (noun), the New Testament's favoriteG0026
- φιλέωphileō to loveto love as a friend, to be fond ofG5368
- φιλαδελφίαphiladelphia brotherly lovebrotherly love, love of the family of faithG5360
Where it appears
- Genesis14
- Exodus2
- Leviticus2
- Deuteronomy21
- Joshua2
- Judges4
- Ruth1
- 1 Samuel8
- 2 Samuel7
- 1 Kings4
- 2 Chronicles5
- Nehemiah2
- Esther4
- Job1
- Psalms39
- Proverbs27
- Ecclesiastes4
- Song of Songs7
- Isaiah9
- Jeremiah10
- Lamentations2
- Ezekiel7
- Daniel1
- Hosea16
- Amos2
- Micah2
- Zechariah3
- Malachi4
Every use · 1–50 of 210 · BSB
“Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”
And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.
Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Then prepare a tasty dish that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.”
Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can make them into a tasty dish for your father—the kind he loves.
So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.
Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.
And Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Reuben, for she said, “The LORD has seen my affliction. Surely my husband will love me now.”
And his soul was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke to her tenderly.
Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons, because Joseph had been born to him in his old age; so he made him a robe of many colors.
When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
And we answered, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’
but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children; I do not want to go free,’
Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,
but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.
He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land—your grain, new wine, and oil, the young of your herds and the lambs of your flocks—in the land that He swore to your fathers to give you.
And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
So you also must love the foreigner, since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
You shall therefore love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.
So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
For if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—
you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
But if your servant says to you, ‘I do not want to leave you,’ because he loves you and your household and is well off with you,
and if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you today, loving the LORD your God and walking in His ways at all times, then you are to add three more cities to these three.
If a man has two wives, one beloved and the other unloved, and both bear him sons, but the unloved wife has the firstborn son,
If a man has two wives, one beloved and the other unloved, and both bear him sons, but the unloved wife has the firstborn son,
when that man assigns his inheritance to his sons he must not appoint the son of the beloved wife as the firstborn over the son of the unloved wife.
Yet the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, and the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.
The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
But be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God.
So may all Your enemies perish, O LORD! But may those who love You shine like the sun at its brightest.” And the land had rest for forty years.
Then Samson’s wife came to him, weeping, and said, “You hate me! You do not really love me! You have posed to my people a riddle, but have not explained it to me.” “Look,” he said, “I have not even explained it to my father or mother, so why should I explain it to you?”
Some time later, Samson fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
“How can you say, ‘I love you,’” she asked, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and failed to reveal to me the source of your great strength!”
He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.”
But to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved her even though the LORD had closed her womb.
When David came to Saul and entered his service, Saul admired him greatly, and David became his armor-bearer.
After David had finished speaking with Saul, the souls of Jonathan and David were knit together, and Jonathan loved him as himself.
But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he was leading them out to battle and back.
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