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.
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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,
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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.
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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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Daniel 9:4 לְאֹהֲבָ֖יו le.'o.ha.Vav · An -ing word: simple action
And I prayed unto Jehovah my God, and made confession, and said, Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keepeth covenant and lovingkindness with them that love him and keep his commandments,
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Hosea 2:5 מְאַהֲבַי֙ me.'a.ha.Vai · An -ing word: strong action
for their mother hath played the harlot; she that conceived them hath done shamefully; for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
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Hosea 2:7 מְאַהֲבֶ֙יהָ֙ me.'a.ha.Vei.ha · An -ing word: strong action
And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.
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Hosea 2:10 מְאַהֲבֶ֑יהָ me.'a.ha.Vei.ha · An -ing word: strong action
And now will I uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.
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Hosea 2:12 מְאַֽהֲבָ֑י me.'a.ha.Vai · An -ing word: strong action
And I will lay waste her vines and her fig-trees, whereof she hath said, These are my hire that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
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Hosea 2:13 מְאַהֲבֶ֑יהָ me.'a.ha.Vei.ha · An -ing word: strong action
And I will visit upon her the days of the Baalim, unto which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her ear-rings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith Jehovah.
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Hosea 3:1 אֱֽהַב־ 'ehav- · A command to you: simple action
And Jehovah said unto me, Go again, love a woman beloved of her friend, and an adulteress, even as Jehovah loveth the children of Israel, though they turn unto other gods, and love cakes of raisins.
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Hosea 3:1 אֲהֻ֥בַת 'a.Hu.vat · An -ing word: simple action, it is done to the subject
And Jehovah said unto me, Go again, love a woman beloved of her friend, and an adulteress, even as Jehovah loveth the children of Israel, though they turn unto other gods, and love cakes of raisins.
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Hosea 3:1 וְאֹהֲבֵ֖י ve.'o.ha.Vei · An -ing word: simple action
And Jehovah said unto me, Go again, love a woman beloved of her friend, and an adulteress, even as Jehovah loveth the children of Israel, though they turn unto other gods, and love cakes of raisins.
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Hosea 4:18 אָהֲב֥וּ 'a.ha.Vu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them
Their drink is become sour; they play the harlot continually; her rulers dearly love shame.
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Hosea 4:18 הֵב֛וּ he.Vu · A command to all of you: simple action
Their drink is become sour; they play the harlot continually; her rulers dearly love shame.
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Hosea 9:1 אָהַ֣בְתָּ 'a.Hav.ta · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by you
Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, like the peoples; for thou hast played the harlot, departing from thy God; thou hast loved hire upon every grain-floor.
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Hosea 9:10 כְּאָהֳבָֽם׃ ke.'o.ho.Vam · The “to do” form of an action: simple action
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at its first season: but they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves unto the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.
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Hosea 10:11 אֹהַ֣בְתִּי 'o.Hav.ti · An -ing word: simple action
And Ephraim is a heifer that is taught, that loveth to tread out the grain; but I have passed over upon her fair neck: I will set a rider on Ephraim; Judah shall plow, Jacob shall break his clods.
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Hosea 11:1 וָאֹהֲבֵ֑הוּ va.'o.ha.Ve.hu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by me
When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
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Hosea 12:7 אָהֵֽב׃ 'a.Hev · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it
He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
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Hosea 14:4 אֹהֲבֵ֖ם 'o.ha.Vem · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for mine anger is turned away from him.
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