אָהֵב
a.hav
1. to love
a. (Qal)
1. human love for another, includes family, and sexual
2. human appetite for objects such as food, drink, sleep, wisdom
3. human love for or to God
4. act of being a friend
a. lover (participle)
b. friend (participle)
5. God's love toward man
a. to individual men
b. to people Israel
c. to righteousness
b. (Niphal)
1. lovely (participle)
2. loveable (participle)
c. (Piel)
1. friends
2. lovers (fig. of adulterers)
2. to like
Also means: a.hav (אָהֵב ": friend" H0157H)
1. to love
a. (Qal)
1. human love for another, includes family, and sexual
2. human appetite for objects such as food, drink, sleep, wisdom
3. human love for or to God
4. act of being a friend
a. lover (participle)
b. friend (participle)
5. God's love toward man
a. to individual men
b. to people Israel
c. to righteousness
b. (Niphal)
1. lovely (participle)
2. loveable (participle)
c. (Piel)
1. friends
2. lovers (fig. of adulterers)
2. to like
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
Translated as (BSB)
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Old Testament
New Testament
Concordance 197 verses
- Genesis 22:2 אָהַ֙בְתָּ֙
“Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”
- Genesis 24:67 וַיֶּאֱהָבֶ֑הָ
And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.
- Genesis 25:28 וַיֶּאֱהַ֥באֹהֶ֥בֶת
Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.
- Genesis 27:4 אָהַ֛בְתִּי
Then prepare a tasty dish that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.”
- Genesis 27:9 אָהֵֽב׃
Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can make them into a tasty dish for your father—the kind he loves.
- Genesis 27:14 אָהֵ֥ב
So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.
- Genesis 29:18 וַיֶּאֱהַ֥ב
Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
- Genesis 29:30 וַיֶּאֱהַ֥ב
Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.
- Genesis 29:32 יֶאֱהָבַ֥נִי
And Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Reuben, for she said, “The LORD has seen my affliction. Surely my husband will love me now.”
- Genesis 34:3 וַיֶּֽאֱהַב֙
And his soul was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke to her tenderly.
- Genesis 37:3 אָהַ֤ב
Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons, because Joseph had been born to him in his old age; so he made him a robe of many colors.
- Genesis 37:4 אָהַ֤ב
When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
- Genesis 44:20 אֲהֵבֽוֹ׃
And we answered, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’
- Exodus 20:6 לְאֹהֲבַ֖י
but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
- Exodus 21:5 אָהַ֙בְתִּי֙
But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children; I do not want to go free,’
- Leviticus 19:18 וְאָֽהַבְתָּ֥
Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
- Leviticus 19:34 וְאָהַבְתָּ֥
You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
- Deuteronomy 4:37 אָהַב֙
Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,
- Deuteronomy 5:10 לְאֹהֲבַ֖י
but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
- Deuteronomy 6:5 וְאָ֣הַבְתָּ֔
And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
- Deuteronomy 7:9 לְאֹהֲבָ֛יו
Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.
- Deuteronomy 7:13 וַאֲהֵ֣בְךָ֔
He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land—your grain, new wine, and oil, the young of your herds and the lambs of your flocks—in the land that He swore to your fathers to give you.
- Deuteronomy 10:12 וּלְאַהֲבָ֣ה
And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
- Deuteronomy 10:15 לְאַהֲבָ֣ה
Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.
- Deuteronomy 10:18 וְאֹהֵ֣ב
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
- Deuteronomy 10:19 וַאֲהַבְתֶּ֖ם
So you also must love the foreigner, since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 11:1 וְאָ֣הַבְתָּ֔
You shall therefore love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.
- Deuteronomy 11:13 לְאַהֲבָ֞ה
So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
- Deuteronomy 11:22 לְאַהֲבָ֞ה
For if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—
- Deuteronomy 13:3 אֹֽהֲבִים֙
you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Deuteronomy 15:16 אֲהֵֽבְךָ֙
But if your servant says to you, ‘I do not want to leave you,’ because he loves you and your household and is well off with you,
- Deuteronomy 19:9 לְאַהֲבָ֞ה
and if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you today, loving the LORD your God and walking in His ways at all times, then you are to add three more cities to these three.
- Deuteronomy 21:15 אֲהוּבָה֙הָאֲהוּבָ֖ה
If a man has two wives, one beloved and the other unloved, and both bear him sons, but the unloved wife has the firstborn son,
- Deuteronomy 21:16 הָ֣אֲהוּבָ֔ה
when that man assigns his inheritance to his sons he must not appoint the son of the beloved wife as the firstborn over the son of the unloved wife.
- Deuteronomy 23:5 אֲהֵֽבְךָ֖
Yet the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, and the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.
- Deuteronomy 30:6 לְאַהֲבָ֞ה
The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
- Deuteronomy 30:16 לְאַהֲבָ֞ה
For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.
- Deuteronomy 30:20 לְאַֽהֲבָה֙
and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
- Joshua 22:5 לְ֠אַהֲבָה
But be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
- Joshua 23:11 לְאַהֲבָ֖ה
Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God.
- Judges 5:31 וְאֹ֣הֲבָ֔יו
So may all your enemies perish, O LORD! But may those who love You shine like the sun at its brightest.” And the land had rest for forty years.
- Judges 14:16 אֲהַבְתָּ֔נִי
Then Samson’s wife came to him, weeping, and said, “You hate me! You do not really love me! You have posed to my people a riddle, but have not explained it to me.” “Look,” he said, “I have not even explained it to my father or mother, so why should I explain it to you?”
- Judges 16:4 וַיֶּאֱהַ֥ב
Some time later, Samson fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
- Judges 16:15 אֲהַבְתִּ֔יךְ
“How can you say, ‘I love you,’” she asked, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and failed to reveal to me the source of your great strength!”
- Ruth 4:15 אֲהֵבַ֙תֶךְ֙
He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.”
- 1 Samuel 1:5 אָהֵ֔ב
But to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved her even though the LORD had closed her womb.
- 1 Samuel 16:21 וַיֶּאֱהָבֵ֣הֽוּ
When David came to Saul and entered his service, Saul admired him greatly, and David became his armor-bearer.
- 1 Samuel 18:1 וַיֶּאֱהָבוֹ
After David had finished speaking with Saul, the souls of Jonathan and David were knit together, and Jonathan loved him as himself.
- 1 Samuel 18:16 אֹהֵ֖ב
But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he was leading them out to battle and back.
- 1 Samuel 18:20 וַתֶּאֱהַ֛ב
Now Saul’s daughter Michal loved David, and when this was reported to Saul, it pleased him.