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. Ezekiel 16:33 מְאַֽהֲבַ֔יִךְ me.'a.ha.Va.yikh · An -ing word: strong action

    They give gifts to all harlots; but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and bribest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredoms.

  2. Ezekiel 16:36 מְאַהֲבָ֑יִךְ me.'a.ha.Va.yikh · An -ing word: strong action

    Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness uncovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers; and because of all the idols of thy abominations, and for the blood of thy children, that thou didst give unto them;

  3. Ezekiel 16:37 מְאַהֲבַ֙יִךְ֙ me.'a.ha.Va.yikh · An -ing word: strong action

    therefore behold, I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them against thee on every side, and will uncover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.

  4. Ezekiel 16:37 אָהַ֔בְתְּ 'a.Havt · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by you

    therefore behold, I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them against thee on every side, and will uncover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.

  5. Ezekiel 23:5 מְאַהֲבֶ֔יהָ me.'a.ha.Vei.ha · An -ing word: strong action

    And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,

  6. Ezekiel 23:9 מְאַֽהֲבֶ֑יהָ me.'a.ha.Vei.ha · An -ing word: strong action

    Wherefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.

  7. Ezekiel 23:22 מְאַהֲבַ֙יִךְ֙ me.'a.ha.Va.yikh · An -ing word: strong action

    Therefore, O Oholibah, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy soul is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side:

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