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. Micah 3:2 וְאֹ֣הֲבֵי ve.'O.ha.vei · An -ing word: simple action

    ye who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

  2. Micah 6:8 וְאַ֣הֲבַת ve.'A.ha.vat · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?

American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.

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