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:
Psalms 99:4: "The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou"
Psalms 109:17: " As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from"
Psalms 116:1: " I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications."
Psalms 119:47: "And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved."
Psalms 119:48: "unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes."
Psalms 119:97: "O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day."
Psalms 119:113: "I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love."
Psalms 119:119: "of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies."
Psalms 119:127: "Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold."
Psalms 119:132: "thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name."
Psalms 119:140: "is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth"
Psalms 119:159: "Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness."
Psalms 119:163: "and abhor lying: but thy law do I love."
Psalms 119:165: "Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend"
Psalms 119:167: "My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly."
Psalms 122:6: "for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love"
Psalms 145:20: "preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy."
Psalms 146:8: "raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:"
Proverbs 1:22: "How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning,"
Proverbs 3:12: "whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son"
Proverbs 4:6: "Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep"
Proverbs 8:17: "I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find"
Proverbs 8:17: "I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find"
Proverbs 8:21: " That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures."
Proverbs 8:36: "his own soul: all they that hate me love death."
Proverbs 9:8: "he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love"
Proverbs 12:1: " Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish."
Proverbs 12:1: "Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish."
Proverbs 13:24: "his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him quickly."
Proverbs 14:20: "of his own neighbor: but the rich hath many friends."
Proverbs 15:9: "of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness."
Proverbs 15:12: "A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise."
Proverbs 16:13: "lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right."
Proverbs 17:17: "A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity."
Proverbs 17:19: " He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction."
Proverbs 17:19: "He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction."
Proverbs 18:21: "and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit"
Proverbs 18:24: "that hath friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother."
Proverbs 19:8: "He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good."
Proverbs 20:13: " Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied"
Proverbs 21:17: " He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not"
Proverbs 21:17: "pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich."
Proverbs 22:11: " He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend."
Proverbs 27:6: "Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful."
Proverbs 29:3: "Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth"
Ecclesiastes 3:8: "A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace."
Ecclesiastes 5:10: " He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance"
Ecclesiastes 5:10: "be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this"
Ecclesiastes 9:9: "Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life"
Song of Solomon 1:3: "poured forth, therefore do the virgins love"
