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;
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
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
Song of Solomon 1:3 - Because of the savour is as ointment of thy good is as ointment poured forth thy name therefore do the virgins love
Song of Solomon 1:4 - Draw after me we will run hath brought thee the king me into his chambers we will be glad and rejoice in thee we will remember thy love more than wine the upright love
1 Samuel 1:5 - But unto Hannah he gave portion a worthy But unto Hannah for he loved but the LORD had shut up her womb
Nehemiah 1:5 - And said I beseech thee O LORD God of heaven God the great and terrible him and observe covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments
Song of Solomon 1:7 - Tell loveth me O thou whom my soul where where thou feedest where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions
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
Proverbs 1:22 - How long ye simple ones will ye love How long ye simple ones and the scorners in their scorning delight and fools hate knowledge
2 Samuel 1:23 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives and in their death they were not divided than eagles they were swifter than lions they were stronger
Isaiah 1:23 - Thy princes are rebellious and companions of thieves every one loveth gifts and followeth after rewards not the fatherless they judge neither doth the cause of the widow come
Hosea 2:5 - hath played the harlot For their mother them hath done shamefully she that conceived for she said after my lovers that give me my bread and my water my wool and my flax mine oil and my drink
Hosea 2:7 - And she shall follow after her lovers but she shall not overtake them and she shall seek them but shall not find them then shall she say and return husband to my first for then was it better with me than now
Hosea 2:10 - And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers and none shall deliver her out of mine hand
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
Hosea 2:12 - And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees whereof she hath said These are my rewards have given that my lovers me and I will make them a forest shall eat and the beasts of the field
Hosea 2:13 - And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim wherein she burned incense to them and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels after her lovers and forgat me saith the LORD
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
Jeremiah 2:25 - Withhold thy foot from being unshod and thy throat from thirst but thou saidst There is no hope no for I have loved strangers and after
Hosea 3:1 - Then said of the LORD and love a woman and love of her friend yet an adulteress according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel who look gods to other and love flagons of wine
Song of Solomon 3:1 - on my bed By night I sought loveth him whom my soul I sought him but I found
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
Song of Solomon 3:2 - I will rise now and go about the city in the streets and in the broad ways I sought loveth him whom my soul I sought him but I found
1 Kings 3:3 - loved And Solomon the LORD in the statutes of David his father in high places only he sacrificed and burnt incense
Song of Solomon 3:3 - found The watchmen that go about the city loveth ye him whom my soul me to whom I said Saw
Song of Solomon 3:4 - It was but a little that I passed from them but I found loveth him whom my soul I held him and would not let him go until I had brought house him into my mother's and into the chamber of her that conceived
Ecclesiastes 3:8 - A time to love A time to hate A time of war A time of peace
Proverbs 3:12 - loveth For whom the LORD he correcteth even as a father the son in whom he delighteth
Psalms 4:2 - O ye sons of men how long will ye turn my glory into shame how long will ye love vanity and seek after leasing Selah
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
Proverbs 4:6 - Forsake her not and she shall preserve thee love her and she shall keep
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 hath born thee which is better to thee than seven sons
Hosea 4:18 - is sour Their drink continually continually do love Give with shame her rulers
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
1 Kings 5:1 - sent And Hiram him king of Tyre his servants unto Solomon for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father a lover And Hiram of David was ever
Deuteronomy 5:10 - And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments
Ecclesiastes 5:10 - He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied silver He that loveth abundance with increase this is also vanity
Esther 5:10 - refrained Nevertheless Haman and called home he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife
Psalms 5:11 - in thee rejoice But let all those that put their trust let them ever shout for joy because thou defendest be joyful them let them also that love thy name
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
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
Jeremiah 5:31 - The prophets prophesy falsely and the priests bear rule by their means and my people love to have it so and what will ye do in the end
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
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
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
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
Jeremiah 8:2 - And they shall spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven whom they have loved and whom they have served whom they have walked and after and whom they have sought and whom they have worshipped they shall not be gathered nor be buried they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth
Proverbs 8:17 - I love I love me and those that seek me early shall find
Zechariah 8:17 - And let none evil against his neighbour of you imagine in your hearts oath no false and love for all these are things that I hate saith the LORD
Zechariah 8:19 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts The fast of the fourth The fast of the fifth The fast of the seventh The fast of the tenth shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness feasts and cheerful the truth and peace therefore love
Proverbs 8:21 - me to inherit That I may cause those that love substance their treasures and I will fill
Proverbs 8:36 - But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul all they that hate me love death
Hosea 9:1 - Rejoice not O Israel for joy as other people for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor
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
Proverbs 9:8 - Reprove not a scorner lest he hate Reprove a wise man and he will love
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
Hosea 9:10 - like grapes in the wilderness I found Israel as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time I saw your fathers but they went to Baalpeor and separated themselves unto that shame and their abominations were according as they loved
Hosea 10:11 - And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught and loveth to tread out the corn but I passed over upon her fair neck to ride And Ephraim shall plow Judah shall break his clods and Jacob
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
Hosea 11:1 - was a child When Israel then I loved out of Egypt him and called my son
1 Kings 11:1 - But king Solomon loved women strange many together with the daughter of Pharaoh women of the Moabites Ammonites Edomites Zidonians and Hittites
1 Kings 11:2 - Of the nations said concerning which the LORD unto the children of Israel Ye shall not go in Ye shall not go in unto you for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods clave Solomon unto these in love
Psalms 11:5 - The LORD the righteous trieth but the wicked and him that loveth violence hateth his soul
Psalms 11:7 - For the righteous LORD righteousness loveth the upright doth behold his countenance
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
2 Chronicles 11:21 - loved And Rehoboam Maachah daughters of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines above all his wives and eight for he took and his concubines and threescore and begat twenty and eight sons and threescore daughters
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
Proverbs 12:1 - Whoso loveth instruction Whoso loveth knowledge but he that hateth reproof is brutish
Hosea 12:7 - He is a merchant are in his hand the balances of deceit to oppress he loveth
2 Samuel 12:24 - comforted And David Bathsheba 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
2 Samuel 13:1 - And it came to pass after this that Absalom the son of David sister had a fair whose name was Tamar loved and Amnon the son of David
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
2 Samuel 13:4 - And he said lean son unto him Why art thou being the king's from day from day wilt thou not tell And he said me And Amnon Tamar sister Absalom's my brother unto him I love
Zechariah 13:6 - And one shall say unto him What are these wounds in thine hands And one shall say Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends
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
Proverbs 13:24 - He that spareth his rod hateth his son but he that loveth him betimes him chasteneth
Nehemiah 13:26 - cause to sin Did not Solomon him king of Israel nations by these things yet among many him king like him who was beloved and God made and God him king of Israel nevertheless even him cause to sin women did outlandish
Hosea 14:4 - I will heal their backsliding I will love them freely is turned away for mine anger
Jeremiah 14:10 - Thus saith the LORD unto this people Thus have they loved to wander their feet they have not refrained the LORD doth not accept them he will now remember their iniquity and visit their sins
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
Proverbs 14:20 - even of his own neighbour is hated The poor friends but the rich hath many
Proverbs 15:9 - is an abomination unto the LORD The way of the wicked him that followeth after righteousness but he loveth
Proverbs 15:12 - loveth A scorner not one that reproveth unto the wise
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
Judges 16:4 - And it came to pass afterward that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah
Proverbs 16:13 - are the delight of kings lips Righteous him that speaketh right and they love
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
1 Samuel 16:21 - came And David to Saul and stood before him and he loved him greatly and he became his armourbearer
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
Proverbs 17:17 - at all times loveth A friend and a brother for adversity is born
Proverbs 17:19 - He loveth transgression He loveth strife and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction
1 Samuel 18:1 - And it came to pass when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul him as his own soul and Jonathan was knit him as his own soul of David loved and Jonathan him as his own soul
1 Samuel 18:16 - But all Israel and Judah loved David because he went out and came in before