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)


  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Ecclesiastes 3:8 - A time to love A time to hate A time of war A time of peace

  • Ecclesiastes 5:10 - He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied silver He that loveth abundance with increase this is also vanity

  • Ecclesiastes 9:9 - joyfully Live with the wife whom thou lovest all the days Live of thy vanity which he hath given thee under the sun all the days of thy vanity for that is thy portion Live and in thy labour which thou takest thee under the sun

  • Esther 2:17 - loved And the king Esther above all the women and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins so that he set crown the royal upon her head and made her queen instead of Vashti

  • Esther 5:10 - refrained Nevertheless Haman and called home he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife

  • Esther 5:14 - Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends and he caused the gallows high of fifty cubits and to morrow Then said thou unto the king may be hanged that Mordecai thereon then go thou unto the king unto the banquet thou in merrily pleased And the thing Haman and he caused the gallows

  • Esther 6:13 - told And Haman Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing that had befallen him Then said his wise men Zeresh his wife be of the seed of the Jews unto him If Mordecai whom thou hast begun against him but shalt surely before thou shalt not prevail against him but shalt surely against him but shalt surely before

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

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

  • Ezekiel 16:33 - to all whores They give gifts They give thy gifts to all thy lovers and hirest them that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom

  • Ezekiel 16:36 - Thus saith the Lord GOD was poured out Because thy filthiness discovered and thy nakedness 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

  • Ezekiel 16:37 - Behold therefore I will gather all thy lovers with whom thou hast taken pleasure all thy lovers with all them that thou hast hated Behold therefore I will gather them round about against thee and will discover all thy nakedness unto them that they may see all thy nakedness

  • 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