H157 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)


  • 1 Samuel 18:20 - loved And Michal daughter Saul David and they told Saul pleased and the thing

  • Proverbs 18:21 - Death and life are in the power of the tongue and they that love it shall eat the fruit

  • 1 Samuel 18:22 - commanded And Saul his servants saying Commune with David secretly and say hath delight Behold the king his servants love son in law Behold the king

  • Proverbs 18:24 - A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother

  • 1 Samuel 18:28 - saw And Saul and knew that the LORD was with David and that Michal daughter And Saul loved

  • 2 Chronicles 19:2 - went out to meet And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer him and said to king Jehoshaphat the ungodly Shouldest thou help them that hate the LORD and love therefore is wrath to meet the LORD

  • 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

  • Proverbs 19:8 - He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul he that keepeth understanding shall find good

  • 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

  • Leviticus 19:18 - Thou shalt not avenge nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself I am the LORD

  • Job 19:19 - abhorred friends All my inward me and they whom I loved are turned

  • Leviticus 19:34 - with you shall be unto you as one born But the stranger that dwelleth among you and thou shalt love But the stranger in the land of Egypt I am the LORD your God

  • Jeremiah 20:4 - For thus saith the LORD Behold I will make thee a terror to thyself and to all thy friends and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies and thine eyes shall behold all Judah Behold I will make into the hand of the king into Babylon and he shall carry them captive into Babylon and shall slay by the sword

  • Exodus 20:6 - And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments

  • Jeremiah 20:6 - And thou Pashur and all that dwell in thine house into captivity to Babylon and thou shalt come and there thou shalt die and shalt be buried there thou and all thy friends to whom thou hast prophesied lies

  • 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

  • Proverbs 20:13 - Love not sleep lest thou come to poverty open thine eyes and thou shalt be satisfied with bread

  • 1 Samuel 20:17 - again And Jonathan to swear caused David because he loved because he loved his own soul him for he loved

  • Exodus 21:5 - say say And if the servant I love my master my wife and my children I will not go out free

  • Deuteronomy 21:15 - If a man have two wives and another beloved and another and the hated and they have born him children beloved and the hated him children and if the firstborn be hers that was hated

  • Deuteronomy 21:16 - Then it shall be when to inherit he maketh his sons that which he hath that he may which is indeed the firstborn he maketh his sons of the beloved before he maketh his sons of the hated which is indeed the firstborn

  • Proverbs 21:17 - man shall be a poor He that loveth pleasure He that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich

  • Genesis 22:2 - And he said Take now thy son thine only whom thou lovest son Isaac into the land of Moriah and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains And he said

  • Joshua 22:5 - and to keep But take diligent to do his commandments and the law charged which Moses the servant of the LORD you to love of the LORD your God 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

  • Proverbs 22:11 - He that loveth of heart for the grace of his lips shall be his friend the king

  • Jeremiah 22:20 - Go up to Lebanon and cry in Bashan and lift up thy voice and cry from the passages are destroyed for all thy lovers

  • Jeremiah 22:22 - all thy pastors all thy pastors The wind and thy lovers into captivity surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness

  • Deuteronomy 23:5 - would Nevertheless the LORD thy God not hearken unto Balaam turned Nevertheless the LORD thy God the curse into a blessing loved Nevertheless the LORD thy God

  • Ezekiel 23:5 - played the harlot And Aholah 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 her into the hand of the Assyrians upon whom she doted

  • Joshua 23:11 - heed Take good therefore unto yourselves that ye love the LORD your God

  • Ezekiel 23:22 - Therefore O Aholibah thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I will raise up thy lovers is alienated against thee from whom thy mind and I will bring them against thee on every side

  • Genesis 24:67 - brought her And Isaac tent Sarah's his mother's and took Rebekah and she became his wife and he loved was comforted And Isaac after his mother's

  • Genesis 25:28 - loved And Isaac Esau of his venison because he did eat but Rebekah loved Jacob

  • Psalms 26:8 - LORD I have loved the habitation of thy house and the place dwelleth where thine honour

  • 2 Chronicles 26:10 - Also he built towers in the desert and digged wells for he had much cattle for he had much both in the low country and in the plains husbandmen also and vine dressers in the mountains and in Carmel for he loved husbandry

  • Genesis 27:4 - And make me savoury meat such as I love and bring it to me that I may eat may bless that my soul thee before I die

  • Proverbs 27:6 - Faithful are the wounds of a friend are deceitful but the kisses of an enemy

  • Genesis 27:9 - now to the flock and fetch me from thence two kids of the goats good and I will make them savoury meat for thy father such as he loveth

  • Genesis 27:14 - and fetched and brought and his mother made and his mother savoury meat loved such as his father

  • Proverbs 29:3 - Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance

  • Genesis 29:18 - loved And Jacob Rachel and said I will serve thee seven years Rachel daughter thy younger

  • Genesis 29:30 - And he went in also Rachel and he loved also Rachel more than Leah and served with him yet seven years other

  • Genesis 29:32 - conceived And Leah and bare a son and she called his name Reuben Surely she said Surely hath looked the LORD upon my affliction Surely will love my husband

  • Deuteronomy 30:6 - will circumcise And the LORD thy God and the heart and the heart of thy seed to love And the LORD thy God and the heart and with all thy soul that thou mayest live

  • Jeremiah 30:14 - All thy lovers have forgotten thee they seek thee with the wound of an enemy thee not for I have wounded with the chastisement of a cruel one for the multitude of thine iniquity were increased because thy sins

  • Deuteronomy 30:16 - In that I command thee this day to love and the LORD thy God in his ways and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments that thou mayest live and multiply shall bless and the LORD thy God thee in the land whither thou goest to possess

  • 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 sware the LORD unto thy fathers to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob to give

  • Jeremiah 31:3 - of old The LORD hath appeared love thee with an everlasting unto me saying Yea I have loved have I drawn therefore with lovingkindness

  • Psalms 31:23 - O love for the LORD all ye his saints the faithful preserveth for the LORD rewardeth and plentifully doer the proud

  • Psalms 33:5 - He loveth righteousness and judgment of the goodness of the LORD is full the earth

  • Genesis 34:3 - clave And his soul unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob and he loved the damsel and spake kindly the damsel

  • Psalms 34:12 - What man is he that desireth life and loveth many days that he may see good

  • Genesis 37:3 - Now Israel loved Joseph because he was the son because he was the son of his old age and he made him a coat of many colours

  • Genesis 37:4 - saw And when his brethren loved that their father And when his brethren they hated him and could not speak peaceably

  • Psalms 37:28 - For the LORD loveth judgment and forsaketh not his saints for ever they are preserved but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off

  • Psalms 38:11 - My lovers and my friends aloof from my sore stand and my kinsmen afar off stand

  • Psalms 40:16 - thee rejoice and be glad Let all those that seek say continually be magnified The LORD in thee let such as love thy salvation

  • Isaiah 41:8 - But thou Israel art my servant Jacob whom I have chosen the seed of Abraham my friend

  • 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

  • Genesis 44:20 - And we said unto my lord We have a father an old man and a child of his old age a little one and his brother is dead and he alone is left of his mother a father loveth

  • Psalms 45:7 - Thou lovest righteousness and hatest wickedness hath anointed therefore God therefore God thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows

  • Psalms 47:4 - He shall choose our inheritance for us the excellency of Jacob whom he loved Selah

  • 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

  • Psalms 52:3 - Thou lovest evil more than good and lying rather than to speak righteousness Selah

  • Psalms 52:4 - Thou lovest words all devouring tongue O thou deceitful

  • Isaiah 56:6 - Also the sons of the stranger that join of the LORD to serve him and to love the name of the LORD to be his servants every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it and taketh hold of my covenant

  • Isaiah 56:10 - His watchmen are blind they are all ignorant dogs they are all dumb they cannot bark sleeping lying down loving to slumber

  • Isaiah 57:8 - Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me and art gone up thou hast enlarged their bed and made thee a covenant with them thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest

  • Isaiah 61:8 - For I the LORD love judgment I hate robbery for burnt offering and I will direct their work in truth covenant an everlasting and I will make

  • Isaiah 66:10 - Rejoice ye with Jerusalem and be glad with her all ye that love her rejoice for joy with her all ye that mourn

  • Psalms 69:36 - The seed also of his servants shall inherit it and they that love his name shall dwell

  • Psalms 70:4 - thee rejoice and be glad Let all those that seek say continually be magnified Let God in thee and let such as love thy salvation

  • Psalms 78:68 - But chose the tribe of Judah the mount Zion which he loved

  • Psalms 87:2 - loveth The LORD the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob

  • Psalms 88:18 - hast thou put far Lover and friend from me and mine acquaintance into darkness

  • Psalms 97:10 - Ye that love the LORD hate evil he preserveth the souls of his saints them out of the hand of the wicked he delivereth

  • Psalms 99:4 - strength The king's judgment also loveth thou dost establish equity judgment and righteousness in Jacob thou executest

  • Psalms 109:17 - As he loved cursing so let it come unto him as he delighted not in blessing so let it be far

  • Psalms 116:1 - I love because he hath heard the LORD my voice and my supplications

  • Psalms 119:47 - And I will delight myself in thy commandments which I have loved

  • Psalms 119:48 - also will I lift up My hands unto thy commandments which I have loved and I will meditate in thy statutes

  • Psalms 119:97 - MEM O how love I thy law all the day it is my meditation

  • Psalms 119:113 - vain thoughts SAMECH I hate but thy law do I love

  • Psalms 119:119 - like dross Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth therefore I love thy testimonies

  • Psalms 119:127 - Therefore I love thy commandments above gold yea above fine gold

  • Psalms 119:132 - Look thou upon me and be merciful unto me as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name

  • Psalms 119:140 - pure Thy word is very therefore thy servant loveth

  • Psalms 119:159 - Consider thy precepts how I love me O LORD according to thy lovingkindness quicken

  • Psalms 119:163 - lying I hate and abhor but thy law do I love

  • Psalms 119:165 - peace Great have they which love thy law and nothing shall offend

  • Psalms 119:167 - hath kept My soul thy testimonies and I love them exceedingly

  • Psalms 122:6 - Pray for the peace of Jerusalem they shall prosper that love

  • Psalms 145:20 - preserveth The LORD all them that love him but all the wicked will he destroy

  • Psalms 146:8 - The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind The LORD raiseth them that are bowed down The LORD loveth the righteous