Strong's #5689: `agab (pronounced aw-gab')
a primitive root; to breathe after, i.e. to love (sensually):--dote, lover.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
‛âgab
1) (Qal) to have inordinate affection or lust
1a) lust (participle)
1b) paramours (participle as subst)
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 7 times:
Jeremiah 4:30: "with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life."
Ezekiel 23:5: "And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians"
Ezekiel 23:7: "of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself."
Ezekiel 23:9: "of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted."
Ezekiel 23:12: " She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbors, captains and rulers clothed"
Ezekiel 23:16: "And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea."
Ezekiel 23:20: " For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue"