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
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Ruth 4:15 אֲהֵבַ֙תֶךְ֙ 'a.he.Va.tekh · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it
And he shall be unto thee a restorer of life, and a nourisher of thine old age, for thy daughter-in-law, who loveth thee, who is better to thee than seven sons, hath borne him.
American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.