Strong's #157: 'ahab (pronounced aw-hab')
or raheb {aw-habe'}; a primitive root; to have affection for (sexually or otherwise):--(be-)love(-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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'âhab / 'âhêb
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 (figuratively of adulterers)
2) to like
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 212 times:
Genesis 22:2: "son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah;"
Genesis 24:67: "Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's"
Genesis 25:28: "And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah"
Genesis 25:28: "he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved"
Genesis 27:4: "And make me savory meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul"
Genesis 27:9: "them savory meat for thy father, such as he loveth:"
Genesis 27:14: "savory meat, such as his father loved."
Genesis 29:18: "And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years"
Genesis 29:30: "also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah,"
Genesis 29:32: "now therefore my husband will love"
Genesis 34:3: "unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spoke kindly"
Genesis 37:3: "Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because"
Genesis 37:4: "saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated"
Genesis 44:20: "is left of his mother, and his father loveth"
Exodus 20:6: "And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments."
Exodus 21:5: "And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master,"
Leviticus 19:18: "against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: am the LORD."
Leviticus 19:34: "with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were"
Deuteronomy 4:37: "And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after"
Deuteronomy 5:10: "And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments."
Deuteronomy 6:5: " And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul,"
Deuteronomy 7:9: "which keepeth covenant with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;"
Deuteronomy 7:13: " And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land,"
Deuteronomy 10:12: "thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve"
Deuteronomy 10:15: "the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all"
Deuteronomy 10:18: "the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment."
Deuteronomy 10:19: " Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt."
Deuteronomy 11:1: " Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments,"
Deuteronomy 11:13: "which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God,"
Deuteronomy 11:22: "which I command them, to love the LORD your God,"
Deuteronomy 13:3: "proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all"
Deuteronomy 15:16: "go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, he is well"
Deuteronomy 19:9: "I command to love the LORD thy God, and to walk"
Deuteronomy 21:15: "two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born"
Deuteronomy 21:15: "hated, and they have born both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be"
Deuteronomy 21:16: "the son of the beloved firstborn before the son"
Deuteronomy 23:5: "unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved"
Deuteronomy 30:6: "thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD with all"
Deuteronomy 30:16: "I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk"
Deuteronomy 30:20: " That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for"
Joshua 22:5: "the servant charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk"
Joshua 23:11: "Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God."
Judges 5:31: "thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land"
Judges 14:16: "him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth unto the children"
Judges 16:4: "And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name"
Judges 16:15: "unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked"
Ruth 4:15: "for thy daughter-in-law, which loveth is better to thee than seven"
1 Samuel 1:5: "worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD"
1 Samuel 16:21: "Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armorbearer."
1 Samuel 18:1: "with the soul of David, loved him as his own soul."
