H157

אהב

ahab

Verb · A primitive root

Or אהב ʼâhêb ; a primitive root; to have affection for (sexually or otherwise):—(be-) love(-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.

Outline

to love

(Qal)

human love for another, includes family, and sexual
human appetite for objects such as food, drink, sleep, wisdom
human love for or to God
act of being a friend

lover (participle)
friend (participle)

God's love toward man

to individual men
to people Israel
to righteousness

(Niphal)

lovely (participle)
loveable (participle)

(Piel)

friends
lovers (fig. of adulterers)

to like

Usages (3/4)

Psalms 119:97

O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

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Psalms 119:113

I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.

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Psalms 119:119

Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.

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Psalms 119:127

Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.

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Psalms 119:132

Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.

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Psalms 119:140

Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.

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Psalms 119:159

Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.

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Psalms 119:163

I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.

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Psalms 119:165

Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

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Psalms 119:167

My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.

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Psalms 122:6

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.

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Psalms 145:20

The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.

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Psalms 146:8

The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:

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Proverbs 1:22

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

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Proverbs 3:12

For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

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Proverbs 4:6

Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

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Proverbs 8:17

I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.

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Proverbs 8:21

That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.

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Proverbs 8:36

But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

Precepts

Proverbs 11:19

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Proverbs 9:8

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

Reprove, Rebuke, Exhort

Proverbs 15:10 Proverbs 27:5 Ecclesiastes 7:5 Micah 3:8 Ecclesiasticus 11:7 Ecclesiasticus 20:2 Ecclesiasticus 32:17 Luke 17:3 Ephesians 5:11 1 Timothy 5:20 2 Timothy 4:2 Hebrews 3:13 Hebrews 10:25

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Proverbs 12:1

Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

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Proverbs 13:24

He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

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Proverbs 14:20

The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.

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Proverbs 15:9

The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.

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Proverbs 15:12

A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.

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Proverbs 16:13

Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.

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Proverbs 17:17

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Precepts

Ecclesiasticus 12:8

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Proverbs 17:19

He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.

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Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

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Proverbs 18:24

A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

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Proverbs 19:8

He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.

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Proverbs 20:13

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

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Proverbs 21:17

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

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Proverbs 22:11

He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.

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Proverbs 27:6

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

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Proverbs 29:3

Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.

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Ecclesiastes 3:8

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

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Ecclesiastes 5:10

He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.

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Ecclesiastes 9:9

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.

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Song of Solomon 1:3

Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.

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Song of Solomon 1:4

Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.

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Song of Solomon 1:7

Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?

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Song of Solomon 3:1

By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

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Song of Solomon 3:2

I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

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Song of Solomon 3:3

The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?

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Song of Solomon 3:4

It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

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Isaiah 1:23

Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

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Isaiah 41:8

But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.

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Isaiah 43:4

Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.

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Isaiah 48:14

All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.

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