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)


  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

  • 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

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

  • Judges 5:31 - perish So let all thine enemies O LORD but let them that love when he goeth forth him be as the sun in his might had rest And the land forty years

  • Judges 14:16 - wept wife And Samson's before him and said Thou dost but hate me and lovest a riddle me not thou hast put forth unto the children of my people and hast not told before him and said it my father nor my mother and hast not told and hast not told

  • Judges 16:4 - And it came to pass afterward that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah

  • Judges 16:15 - And she said unto him How And she said I love thee when thine heart me these three times is not with me thou hast mocked and hast not told strength me wherein thy great

  • Lamentations 1:2 - She weepeth She weepeth in the night and her tears are on her cheeks she hath none to comfort among all her lovers her all her friends have dealt treacherously with her they are become her enemies

  • Lamentations 1:19 - I called for my lovers but they deceived me my priests and mine elders in the city gave up the ghost while they sought their meat to relieve their souls

  • 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

  • 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

  • Malachi 1:2 - I have loved Yet ye say the LORD Yet ye say I have loved brother us Was not Esau Jacob you saith the LORD I have loved Jacob

  • Malachi 2:11 - hath dealt treacherously Judah and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem hath profaned Judah the holiness of the LORD which he loved and hath married the daughter god of a strange

  • Micah 3:2 - Who hate the good and love the evil who pluck off their skin from off them and their flesh from off their bones