Strong's #160: 'ahabah (pronounced a-hab-aw)
feminine of 158 and meaning the same:--love.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
'ahăbâh
1) love
1a) human love for human object
1a1) of man toward man
1a2) of man toward himself
1a3) between man and woman
1a4) sexual desire
2) God' s love to His people
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: feminine of H158
Usage:
This word is used 36 times:
Genesis 29:20: "and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love"
Deuteronomy 7:8: "But because the LORD loved loved you, and because he would keep the oath"
1 Samuel 20:17: "David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved his own soul."
1 Samuel 20:17: "because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul."
2 Samuel 1:26: "Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, of women."
2 Samuel 1:26: "pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women."
2 Samuel 13:15: "so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith"
2 Chronicles 2:11: "to Solomon, hath loved his people, he hath made thee king"
2 Chronicles 9:8: "for the LORD thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them forever,"
Psalms 109:4: "For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer."
Psalms 109:5: "for good, and hatred for my love."
Proverbs 5:19: "times; always with her love."
Proverbs 10:12: "Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins."
Proverbs 15:17: "is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred"
Proverbs 17:9: "He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends."
Proverbs 27:5: "rebuke is better than secret love. love."
Ecclesiastes 9:1: "man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before"
Ecclesiastes 9:6: "Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished;"
Song of Solomon 2:4: "house, and his banner over me was love."
Song of Solomon 2:5: "for I am sick of love."
Song of Solomon 2:7: "that ye stir not up, awake my love, till he please."
Song of Solomon 3:5: "that ye stir not up, awake my love, till he please."
Song of Solomon 3:10: "of it of purple, the midst with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem."
Song of Solomon 5:8: "him, that I am sick of love."
Song of Solomon 7:6: "fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!"
Song of Solomon 8:4: "nor awake my love, until he please."
Song of Solomon 8:6: "upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel"
Song of Solomon 8:7: "cannot quench love, neither can the floods"
Song of Solomon 8:7: "all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned."
Isaiah 63:9: "and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity redeemed them; and he bore"
Jeremiah 2:2: "thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness,"
Jeremiah 2:33: "trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught"
Jeremiah 31:3: "of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness"
Hosea 3:1: "beloved yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel,"
Hosea 11:4: "them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke"
Zephaniah 3:17: "over thee with joy; in his love, he will joy over thee with singing."
