אָהֵב

a.hav · to love: lover

Hebrew · Strong's H157 · Verb · Sounds like: aw-hab' · 211 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • to love: lover H0157G 198
  • to love: friend H0157H · a Meaning of 13

Strong's dictionary

or אָהֵב ; a primitive root; to have affection for (sexually or otherwise); (be-) love(-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
אָהֵב 216 vb. love
Qal
1. human love to human object
2. less oft. of appetite
3. love to God
4. esp. Pt.
5. of divine love
Niph. Pt. pl. lovely, loveable
Pi.
1. friends
2. lovers

Every occurrence

  1. Ecclesiastes 3:8 לֶֽאֱהֹב֙ le.'e.Ho · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

  2. Ecclesiastes 5:10 אֹהֵ֥ב 'o.Hev · An -ing word: simple action

    He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

  3. Ecclesiastes 5:10 אֹהֵ֥ב 'o.Hev · An -ing word: simple action

    He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

  4. Ecclesiastes 9:9 אָהַ֗בְתָּ 'a.Hav.ta · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by you

    Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of thy life of vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity: for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor wherein thou laborest under the sun.

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