Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H157: אָהַב (ʼâhab) Definition

Strong's number
H157
Lemma
אָהַב
Transliteration
ʼâhab
Pronunciation
aw-hab'
Strong's definition
to have affection for (sexually or otherwise) (be-) love(-d, -ly, -r), like, friend. or אָהֵב ; a primitive root;

195 instances of the word אָהַב ʼâhab (H157)


  • 2 Samuel 13:15 - hated Then Amnon so that the hatred her was greater her exceedingly her was greater so that the hatred hated than the love wherewith he had loved said Then Amnon unto her Arise

  • 2 Samuel 19:6 - In that thou lovest and hatest and hatest In that thou lovest For thou hast declared for this day that thou regardest neither princes nor servants I perceive for this day that if Absalom had lived for this day and all we had died then it had pleased thee well

  • Amos 4:5 - And offer with leaven a sacrifice of thanksgiving and proclaim the free offerings and publish for this liketh you O ye children of Israel saith the Lord

  • Amos 5:15 - Hate the evil and love the good and establish in the gate judgment will be gracious it may be that the LORD God of hosts unto the remnant of Joseph

  • Daniel 9:4 - And I prayed unto the LORD my God and made my confession and said O Lord God the great and dreadful him and to them that keep the covenant and mercy to them that love him and to them that keep his commandments

  • Deuteronomy 4:37 - And because he loved thy fathers therefore he chose their seed after them and brought thee out in his sight power with his mighty out of Egypt

  • Deuteronomy 5:10 - And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments

  • Deuteronomy 6:5 - And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might

  • Deuteronomy 7:9 - Know therefore that the LORD he is God he is God God the faithful him and keep covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations

  • Deuteronomy 7:13 - And he will love thee and bless thee and multiply thee and bless and the fruit of thy womb and the fruit in the land thy corn and thy wine and thine oil the increase of thy kine and the flocks of thy sheep in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give

  • Deuteronomy 10:12 - And now Israel the LORD thy God require of thee but to fear the LORD thy God in all his ways and to love him and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul

  • Deuteronomy 10:15 - in thy fathers had a delight Only the LORD to love them and he chose their seed after them even you above all people as it is this day

  • Deuteronomy 10:18 - He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow and loveth the stranger in giving him food and raiment

  • Deuteronomy 10:19 - Love for ye were strangers for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt

  • Deuteronomy 11:1 - Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God and keep his charge and his statutes and his judgments and his commandments alway

  • Deuteronomy 11:13 - And it shall come to pass if ye shall hearken And it shall come to pass if ye shall hearken unto my commandments which I command you this day to love the LORD your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul

  • Deuteronomy 11:22 - For if ye shall diligently For if ye shall diligently all these commandments which I command you to do them to love the LORD your God in all his ways and to cleave

  • Deuteronomy 13:3 - Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams proveth for the LORD your God you to know whether ye love for the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul

  • Deuteronomy 15:16 - And it shall be if he say unto thee I will not go away from thee because he loveth thee and thine house because he is well

  • Deuteronomy 19:9 - If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them which I command ever to love the LORD thy God in his ways ever then shalt thou add more for thee beside these three cities more for thee beside these three