Strong's #163: 'Ahava' (pronounced a-hav-aw')

probably of foreign origin; Ahava, a river of Babylonia:--Ahava.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

'ahăvâ'

Ahava = "I shall subsist"

1) town or area in Babylonia

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: probably of foreign origin

Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

 

Ezra 8:15: "the river that runneth to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days:"
Ezra 8:21: "there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek"
Ezra 8:31: "Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first"