Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H157

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Original: אהב אהב

Transliteration: ahab aheb ('âhab 'âhêb)

Phonetic: aw-hab'

BDB Definition:

to love
1. (Qal)
  1. human love for another, includes family, and sexual
  2. human appetite for objects such as food, drink, sleep, wisdom
  3. human love for or to God
  4. act of being a friend
    1. lover (participle)
    2. friend (participle)
  5. God's love toward man
    1. to individual men
    2. to people Israel
    3. to righteousness
2. (Niphal)
  1. lovely (participle)
  2. loveable (participle)
3. (Piel)
  1. friends
  2. lovers (figuratively of adulterers)
to like

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT entry: 29

Part(s) of speech: Verb

Strong's Definition: A primitive root; to have affection for (sexually or otherwise): - (be-) love (-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.

Occurrences in the (KJV) King James Version:

All Occurrences (208x)

A Friend (1x)

A Lover (1x)

After Her Lovers (1x)

All Them That Love (1x)

All Thy Lovers (2x)

Also Loveth (1x)

Among All Her Lovers (1x)

Among You, And Thou Shalt Love (1x)

And All His Friends (2x)

And Because He Loved (1x)

And He Loved (3x)

And He Will Love (2x)

And Him That Loveth (1x)

And I Have Loved (1x)

And I Love (1x)

And Love (5x)

And Loveth (1x)

And They Love (1x)

And They That Love (1x)

And Thou Shalt Love (1x)

And Thy Lovers (1x)

And To Love (1x)

As He Loved (1x)

Beloved (2x)

But He Loveth (1x)

But He That Loveth (1x)

But Thou Shalt Love (1x)

Do I Love (2x)

Do Love (1x)

Every One Loveth (1x)

For All Thy Lovers (1x)

For He Loved (2x)

For His Friends (1x)

For My Lovers (1x)

For Them That Love (1x)

Friends (1x)

From Thee; Because He Loveth (1x)

Hath Loved (1x)

Have They Which Love (1x)

He Loveth (3x)

He That Loveth (4x)

Her Lovers (1x)

Him, And To Love (1x)

Him: And He Loved (1x)

Him: For He Loved (1x)

How I Love (1x)

I Have Loved (2x)

I Love (5x)

I Will Love (1x)

In That Thou Lovest (1x)

In Thee: And Let Such As Love (1x)

In Thee: Let Such As Love (1x)

It: And They That Love (1x)

Like Him, Who Was Beloved (1x)

Liketh (1x)

Love (8x)

Loved (17x)

Lovely (1x)

Lover (1x)

Loveth (19x)

Loving (1x)

Me Love (1x)

Me, And Lovest (1x)

Me: And They Whom I Loved (1x)

My Friend (1x)

My Lovers (2x)

No; For I Have Loved (1x)

Nor He That Loveth (1x)

O How Love I (1x)

O Love (1x)

Of A Friend (1x)

Of Her Lovers (2x)

Of My Friends (1x)

Of The Beloved (1x)

Of Them That Love (2x)

On Her Lovers (1x)

Such As He Loveth (1x)

That He Loved (1x)

That I May Cause Those That Love (1x)

That Love (1x)

That Loveth (1x)

That My Lovers (1x)

That Thou Hast Loved (1x)

That Thou Mayest Love (1x)

That Ye Love (1x)

The Beloved (1x)

Thee: Love (1x)

Them That Love (2x)

Them, To Love (1x)

Them: Let Them Also That Love (1x)

Then I Loved (1x)

There, Thou, And All Thy Friends (1x)

Therefore I Love (2x)

Therefore Love (1x)

Therefore Thou Shalt Love (1x)

Thou Hast Loved (1x)

Thou Lovest (3x)

Thus Have They Loved (1x)

Thy Friend (1x)

100

Thy Friends (1x)

101

Thy Lovers (1x)

102

To All Thy Lovers (1x)

103

To Do Unto Those That Love (1x)

104

To Love (6x)

105

To Them That Love (1x)

106

To Thyself, And To All Thy Friends (1x)

107

Unto Him, I Love (1x)

108

Unto These In Love (1x)

109

Were According As They Loved (1x)

110

Wherein Hast Thou Loved (1x)

111

Wherewith He Had Loved (1x)

112

Which He Loved (2x)

113

Which I Have Loved (2x)

114

Which Loveth (1x)

115

Whom He Loved (1x)

116

Whom They Have Loved (1x)

117

Whom Thou Lovest (2x)

118

Whoso Loveth (1x)

119

Will Love (1x)

120

Will Ye Love (2x)

121

With Her, All Ye That Love (1x)

122

With Them That Love (1x)

123

With Them; Thou Lovedst (1x)

124

With Thy Lovers (1x)

125

Ye That Love (1x)

126

Yea, I Have Loved (1x)

127

Yet I Loved (1x)

128

Yet, Love (1x)

129

You, To Love (1x)

All Occurrences

Lamentations 1:2

She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

Lamentations 1:19

I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.

Ezekiel 16:33

They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.(n)

Ezekiel 16:36

Thus saith the Lord God ; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;

Ezekiel 16:37

Behold, therefore 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 round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.

Ezekiel 23:5

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

Ezekiel 23:9

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

Ezekiel 23:22

Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;

Daniel 9:4

And I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;

Hosea 2:5

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.(c)

Hosea 2:7

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.

Hosea 2:10

And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.(h)

Hosea 2:12

And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.(i)

Hosea 2:13

And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the Lord .

Hosea 3:1

Then said the Lord unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the Lord toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.(a)

Hosea 4:18

Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.(i)

(j)

Hosea 9:1

Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.(a)

Hosea 9:10

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baal–peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.

Hosea 10:11

And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.(i)

Hosea 11:1

When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

Hosea 12:7

He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.(c)

(d)

Hosea 14:4

I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.

Amos 4:5

And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord God .(c)

(d)

Amos 5:15

Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

Micah 3:2

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

Zechariah 8:17

And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the Lord .

Zechariah 8:19

Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.(g)

Zechariah 13:6

And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.

Malachi 1:2

I have loved you, saith the Lord . Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the Lord : yet I loved Jacob,

Malachi 2:11

Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.(f)

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Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

All of the original Hebrew and Aramaic words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. In some cases more than one form of the word — such as the masculine and feminine forms of a noun — may be listed.

Each entry is a Hebrew word, unless it is designated as Aramaic. Immediately after each word is given its equivalent in English letters, according to a system of transliteration. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (TWOT), by R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke. This section makes an association between the unique number used by TWOT with the Strong's number.

Thayers Information

All of the original Greek words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. The Strong's numbering system arranges most Greek words by their alphabetical order. This renders reference easy without recourse to the Greek characters. In some cases more than one form of the word - such as the masculine, feminine, and neuter forms of a noun - may be listed.

Immediately after each word is given its exact equivalent in English letters, according to the system of transliteration laid down in the scheme here following. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Thayer's Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in the ten-volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (TDNT), edited by Gerhard Kittel. Both volume and page numbers cite where the word may be found.

The presence of an asterisk indicates that the corresponding entry in the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament may appear in a different form than that displayed in Thayers' Greek Definitions.

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Dictionaries of Hebrew and Greek Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890.

Strong's Concor­dance

Hebrew-Aramaic H157

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Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H157