אָהֵב

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)

Every occurrence

1. Judges 5:31 וְאֹ֣הֲבָ֔יו ve.'O.ha.Vav · An -ing word: simple action

   So let all thine enemies perish, O Jehovah: But let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.

2. Judges 14:16 אֲהַבְתָּ֔נִי 'a.hav.Ta.ni · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by you

   And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell thee?

3. Judges 16:4 וַיֶּאֱהַ֥ב vai.ye.'e.Hav · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

   And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

4. Judges 16:15 אֲהַבְתִּ֔יךְ 'a.hav.Tikh · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

   And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.

American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.