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 · 201–210 of 210 · BSB
Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.
He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
do not plot evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love to swear falsely, for I hate all these things,” declares the LORD.
“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become times of joy and gladness, cheerful feasts for the house of Judah. Therefore you are to love both truth and peace.”
If someone asks him, ‘What are these wounds on your chest?’ he will answer, ‘These are the wounds I received in the house of my friends.’
“I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you ask, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet Jacob I have loved,
“I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you ask, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet Jacob I have loved,
“I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you ask, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet Jacob I have loved,
Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.
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