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:
Song of Solomon 1:4: "thy love the upright love"
Song of Solomon 1:7: "Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thyflock to rest"
Song of Solomon 3:1: "I sought him whom my soul loveth: loveth: I sought him, but I found him not."
Song of Solomon 3:2: "and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: loveth: I sought him not."
Song of Solomon 3:3: "me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? loveth?"
Song of Solomon 3:4: "them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: loveth: I held"
Isaiah 1:23: "and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge"
Isaiah 41:8: "I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend."
Isaiah 43:4: "thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honorable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for"
Isaiah 48:14: "these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do on Babylon, and his arm"
Isaiah 56:6: "to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD,"
Isaiah 56:10: "they cannot bark; sleeping, loving to slumber."
Isaiah 57:8: "thou hast enlarged and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest"
Isaiah 61:8: "For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering;"
Isaiah 66:10: "Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all"
Jeremiah 2:25: "from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved and after"
Jeremiah 5:31: "by their means; and my people love to have it so: will ye do in the end"
Jeremiah 8:2: "the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, whom"
Jeremiah 14:10: "unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained"
Jeremiah 20:4: "I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall of their enemies, and thine eyes"
Jeremiah 20:6: "there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies."
Jeremiah 22:20: "from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed."
Jeremiah 22:22: "shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then"
Jeremiah 30:14: "All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound"
Jeremiah 31:3: "The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore"
Lamentations 1:2: "and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort"
Lamentations 1:19: "I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city,"
Ezekiel 16:33: "thy gifts to all thy lovers, them, that they may come unto thee on every side"
Ezekiel 16:36: "discovered through thy whoredoms thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations,"
Ezekiel 16:37: "I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all"
Ezekiel 16:37: "thou hast taken pleasure, and all thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated;"
Ezekiel 23:5: "when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,"
Ezekiel 23:9: "Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon"
Ezekiel 23:22: "Behold, I will raise up thy lovers thee, from whom"
Daniel 9:4: "the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;"
Hosea 2:5: "she said, I will go after my lovers, me my bread and my water, my wool"
Hosea 2:7: "And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find"
Hosea 2:10: "her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand."
Hosea 2:12: "These are my rewards that my lovers have given them a forest, and the beasts"
Hosea 2:13: "and her jewels, after her lovers, and forgot me, saith the LORD."
Hosea 3:1: "unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress,"
Hosea 3:1: "yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, of the LORD"
Hosea 3:1: "to other gods, and love flagons of wine."
Hosea 4:18: "they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give"
Hosea 9:1: "thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every"
Hosea 9:10: "unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved."
Hosea 9:15: "of their doings I will drive them out I will love them no more: all"
Hosea 10:11: "And Ephraim is as a heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon"
Hosea 11:1: "When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt."
Hosea 12:7: "the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress."
