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

Deuteronomy 21:16

Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:

Deuteronomy 23:5

Nevertheless the Lord thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the Lord thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the Lord thy God loved thee.

Deuteronomy 30:6

And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

Deuteronomy 30:16

In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

Deuteronomy 30:20

That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

Joshua 22:5

But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Joshua 23:11

Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the Lord your God.(e)

Judges 5:31

So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord : but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.

Judges 14:16

And Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee?

Judges 16:4

And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.(d)

Judges 16:15

And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.

Ruth 4:15

And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.(f)

(g)

1 Samuel 1:5

But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the Lord had shut up her womb.(b)

1 Samuel 16:21

And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armourbearer.

1 Samuel 18:1

And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

1 Samuel 18:16

But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came in before them.

1 Samuel 18:20

And Michal Saul’s daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.(g)

1 Samuel 18:22

And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king’s son in law.

1 Samuel 18:28

And Saul saw and knew that the Lord was with David, and that Michal Saul’s daughter loved him.

1 Samuel 20:17

And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.(i)

2 Samuel 1:23

Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.(e)

2 Samuel 12:24

And David comforted Bath–sheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the Lord loved him.

2 Samuel 13:1

And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.

2 Samuel 13:4

And he said unto him, Why art thou, being the king’s son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.(b)

(c)

2 Samuel 13:15

Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone.(g)

2 Samuel 19:6

In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.(b)

(c)

1 Kings 3:3

And Solomon loved the Lord , walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.

1 Kings 5:1

And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.(a)

1 Kings 11:1

But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;(a)

1 Kings 11:2

Of the nations concerning which the Lord said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.

2 Chronicles 11:21

And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)

2 Chronicles 19:2

And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord ? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord .

2 Chronicles 20:7

Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?(b)

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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

Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

Thayers Information

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H157