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:
Hosea 14:4: "I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from"
Amos 4:5: "the free offerings: for this liketh of Israel, saith the Lord"
Amos 5:15: "Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be"
Micah 3:2: "Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off"
Micah 6:8: "thee, but to do and to love mercy, and to walk humbly"
Zechariah 8:17: "evil in your hearts against his neighbor; and love no false oath:"
Zechariah 8:19: "and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace."
Zechariah 13:6: "Those with which I was wounded of my friends."
Malachi 1:2: " I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau"
Malachi 1:2: "the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother?"
Malachi 1:2: "brother? the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,"
Malachi 2:11: "the holiness which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god."
