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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Concordance 197 verses
- 1 Samuel 18:22 אֲהֵב֑וּךָ
Then Saul ordered his servants, “Speak to David privately and tell him, ‘Behold, the king is pleased with you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore, become his son-in-law.’”
- 1 Samuel 18:28 אֲהֵבַֽתְהוּ׃
When Saul realized that the LORD was with David and that his daughter Michal loved David,
- 1 Samuel 20:17 אֲהֵבֽוֹ׃ס
And Jonathan had David reaffirm his vow out of love for him, for Jonathan loved David as he loved himself.
- 2 Samuel 1:23 הַנֶּאֱהָבִ֤ים
Saul and Jonathan, beloved and delightful in life, were not divided in death. They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
- 2 Samuel 12:24 אֲהֵבֽוֹ׃
Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and lay with her. So she gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. Now the LORD loved the child
- 2 Samuel 13:1 וַיֶּאֱהָבֶ֖הָ
After some time, David’s son Amnon fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of David’s son Absalom.
- 2 Samuel 13:4 אֹהֵֽב׃
so he asked Amnon, “Why are you, the son of the king, so depressed morning after morning? Won’t you tell me?” Amnon replied, “I am in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”
- 2 Samuel 13:15 אֲהֵבָ֑הּ
Then Amnon hated Tamar with such intensity that his hatred was greater than the love he previously had. “Get up!” he said to her. “Be gone!”
- 2 Samuel 19:6 לְאַֽהֲבָה֙אֹהֲבֶ֑יךָ
You love those who hate you and hate those who love you! For you have made it clear today that the commanders and soldiers mean nothing to you. I know today that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead, it would have pleased you!
- 1 Kings 3:3 וַיֶּאֱהַ֤ב
And Solomon loved the LORD and walked in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
- 1 Kings 5:1 אֹהֵ֗ב
Now when Hiram king of Tyre heard that Solomon had been anointed king in his father’s place, he sent envoys to Solomon; for Hiram had always been a friend of David.
- 1 Kings 10:9 בְּאַהֲבַ֨ת
Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you to set you on the throne of Israel. Because of the LORD’s eternal love for Israel, He has made you king to carry out justice and righteousness.”
- 1 Kings 11:1 אָהַ֞ב
King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.
- 2 Chronicles 9:8 בְּאַהֲבַ֨ת
Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you to set you on His throne to be king for the LORD your God. Because your God loved Israel enough to establish them forever, He has made you king over them to carry out justice and righteousness.”
- 2 Chronicles 11:21 וַיֶּאֱהַ֨ב
Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
- 2 Chronicles 19:2 תֶּאֱהָ֑ב
Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, the wrath of the LORD is upon you.
- 2 Chronicles 20:7 אֹֽהַבְךָ֖
Our God, did You not drive out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham Your friend?
- 2 Chronicles 26:10 אֹהֵ֥ב
Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields.
- Nehemiah 1:5 לְאֹהֲבָ֖יו
Then I said: “O LORD, God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion with those who love Him and keep His commandments,
- Nehemiah 13:26 וְאָה֤וּב
Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations, and he was loved by his God, who made him king over all Israel—yet foreign women drew him into sin.
- Esther 2:17 וַיֶּאֱהַ֨ב
And the king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she found grace and favor in his sight more than all of the other virgins. So he placed the royal crown upon her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.
- Esther 5:10 אֹהֲבָ֖יו
Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home. And calling for his friends and his wife Zeresh,
- Esther 5:14 אֹֽהֲבָ֗יו
His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows fifty cubits high, and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai hanged on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.” The advice pleased Haman, and he had the gallows constructed.
- Esther 6:13 אֹ֣הֲבָ֔יו
Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has begun, is Jewish, you will not prevail against him—for surely you will fall before him.”
- Job 19:19 אָ֝הַ֗בְתִּי
All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.
- Psalms 4:2 תֶּאֱהָב֣וּן
How long, O men, will my honor be maligned? How long will you love vanity and seek after lies ? Selah
- Psalms 5:11 אֹהֲבֵ֥י
But let all who take refuge in You rejoice; let them ever shout for joy. May You shelter them, that those who love Your name may rejoice in You.
- Psalms 11:5 וְאֹהֵ֣ב
The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul hates the lover of violence.
- Psalms 11:7 אָהֵ֑ב
For the LORD is righteous; He loves justice. The upright will see His face.
- Psalms 26:8 אָ֭הַבְתִּי
O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.
- Psalms 31:23 אֶֽהֱב֥וּ
Love the LORD, all His saints. The LORD preserves the faithful, but fully repays the arrogant.
- Psalms 33:5 אֹ֭הֵב
The LORD loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of His loving devotion.
- Psalms 34:12 אֹהֵ֥ב
Who is the man who delights in life, who desires to see good days?
- Psalms 37:28 אֹ֘הֵ֤ב
For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.
- Psalms 38:11 אֹֽהֲבַ֨י׀
My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance.
- Psalms 40:16 אֹֽ֝הֲבֵ֗י
May all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; may those who love Your salvation always say, “The LORD be magnified!”
- Psalms 45:7 אָהַ֣בְתָּ
You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you above your companions with the oil of joy.
- Psalms 47:4 אָהֵ֣ב
He chooses our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom He loves. Selah
- Psalms 52:3 אָהַ֣בְתָּ
You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah
- Psalms 52:4 אָהַ֥בְתָּ
You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.
- Psalms 69:36 וְאֹהֲבֵ֥י
The descendants of His servants will inherit it, and those who love His name will settle in it.
- Psalms 70:4 אֹ֝הֲבֵ֗י
May all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; may those who love Your salvation always say, “Let God be magnified!”
- Psalms 78:68 אָהֵֽב׃
But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.
- Psalms 87:2 אֹהֵ֣ב
The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
- Psalms 88:18 אֹהֵ֣ב
You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.
- Psalms 97:10 אֹהֲבֵ֥י
Hate evil, O you who love the LORD! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
- Psalms 99:4 אָ֫הֵ֥ב
The mighty King loves justice. You have established equity; You have exercised justice and righteousness in Jacob.
- Psalms 109:17 וַיֶּאֱהַ֣ב
The cursing that he loved, may it fall on him; the blessing in which he refused to delight, may it be far from him.
- Psalms 116:1 אָ֭הַבְתִּי
I love the LORD, for He has heard my voice— my appeal for mercy.
- Psalms 119:47 אָהָֽבְתִּי׃
I delight in Your commandments because I love them.