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:
1 Samuel 18:3: "and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul."
1 Samuel 18:16: "But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he"
1 Samuel 18:20: "And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul,"
1 Samuel 18:22: "hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king's son-in-law."
1 Samuel 18:28: "and that Michal Saul's daughter loved"
1 Samuel 20:17: "again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul."
2 Samuel 1:23: "Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided:"
2 Samuel 12:24: "his name Solomon: and the LORD loved"
2 Samuel 13:1: "the son of David loved"
2 Samuel 13:4: "tell said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother"
2 Samuel 13:15: "wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon"
2 Samuel 19:6: " In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared"
2 Samuel 19:6: "thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that"
1 Kings 3:3: "And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father:"
1 Kings 5:1: "Hiram was ever a lover of David."
1 Kings 10:9: "the throne of Israel: loved Israel forever, therefore made"
1 Kings 11:1: "But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter"
1 Kings 11:2: "their gods: Solomon cleaved unto these in love."
2 Chronicles 11:21: "And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all"
2 Chronicles 19:2: "king Jehoshaphat, the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore"
2 Chronicles 20:7: "and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend forever?"
2 Chronicles 26:10: "in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved he loved husbandry."
Nehemiah 1:5: "that keepeth covenant for them that love him and observe his commandments:"
Nehemiah 13:26: "king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king"
Esther 2:17: "And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained"
Esther 5:10: "home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife."
Esther 5:14: "Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits"
Esther 6:13: "Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing that had befallen"
Job 19:19: "friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned"
Psalms 4:2: "how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing?"
Psalms 5:11: "shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful"
Psalms 11:5: "trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth."
Psalms 11:7: "For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright."
Psalms 26:8: "LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honor dwelleth."
Psalms 31:23: " O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful,"
Psalms 33:5: " He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD."
Psalms 34:12: "man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?"
Psalms 37:28: "For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints;"
Psalms 38:11: " My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand"
Psalms 40:16: "those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD"
Psalms 45:7: " Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God,"
Psalms 47:4: "the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah."
Psalms 52:3: " Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness."
Psalms 52:4: " Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue."
Psalms 69:36: "The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell"
Psalms 70:4: "those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God"
Psalms 78:68: "the mount Zion which he loved."
Psalms 87:2: "The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob."
Psalms 88:18: " Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness."
Psalms 97:10: " Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth"
