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
- Isaiah 48:14 אֲהֵב֔וֹ
Come together, all of you, and listen: Which of the idols has foretold these things? The LORD’s chosen ally will carry out His desire against Babylon, and His arm will be against the Chaldeans.
- Isaiah 56:6 וּֽלְאַהֲבָה֙
And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD to minister to Him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be His servants— all who keep the Sabbath without profaning it and who hold fast to My covenant—
- Isaiah 56:10 אֹהֲבֵ֖י
Israel’s watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber.
- Isaiah 57:8 אָהַ֥בְתְּ
Behind the door and doorpost you have set up your memorial. Forsaking Me, you uncovered your bed; you climbed up and opened it wide. And you have made a pact with those whose bed you have loved; you have gazed upon their nakedness.
- Isaiah 61:8 אֹהֵ֣ב
For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.
- Isaiah 66:10 אֹהֲבֶ֑יהָ
Be glad for Jerusalem and rejoice over her, all who love her. Rejoice greatly with her, all who mourn over her,
- Jeremiah 2:25 אָהַ֥בְתִּי
You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’
- Jeremiah 5:31 אָ֣הֲבוּ
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?
- Jeremiah 8:2 אֲהֵב֜וּם
They will be exposed to the sun and moon, and to all the host of heaven which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered up or buried, but will become like dung lying on the ground.
- Jeremiah 14:10 אָֽהֲבוּ֙
This is what the LORD says about this people: “Truly they love to wander; they have not restrained their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember their guilt and call their sins to account.”
- Jeremiah 20:4 אֹהֲבֶ֗יךָ
For this is what the LORD says: ‘I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They will fall by the sword of their enemies before your very eyes. And I will hand Judah over to the king of Babylon, and he will carry them away to Babylon and put them to the sword.
- Jeremiah 20:6 אֹ֣הֲבֶ֔יךָ
And you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house, will go into captivity. You will go to Babylon, and there you will die and be buried—you and all your friends to whom you have prophesied these lies.’”
- Jeremiah 22:20 מְאַהֲבָֽיִךְ׃
Go up to Lebanon and cry out; raise your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers have been crushed.
- Jeremiah 22:22 וּֽמְאַהֲבַ֖יִךְ
The wind will drive away all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. Then you will be ashamed and humiliated because of all your wickedness.
- Jeremiah 30:14 מְאַהֲבַ֣יִךְ
All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins.
- Jeremiah 31:3 אֲהַבְתִּ֔יךְ
The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.
- Lamentations 1:2 אֹהֲבֶ֑יהָ
She weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.
- Lamentations 1:19 לַֽמְאַהֲבַי֙
I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.
- Ezekiel 16:33 מְאַֽהֲבַ֔יִךְ
Men give gifts to all their prostitutes, but you gave gifts to all your lovers. You bribed them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors.
- Ezekiel 16:36 מְאַהֲבָ֑יִךְ
This is what the Lord GOD says: Because you poured out your wealth and exposed your nakedness in your promiscuity with your lovers and with all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your children which you gave to them,
- Ezekiel 16:37 מְאַהֲבַ֙יִךְ֙אָהַ֔בְתְּ
therefore I will surely gather all the lovers with whom you found pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and expose you before them, and they will see you completely naked.
- Ezekiel 23:5 מְאַהֲבֶ֔יהָ
Oholah prostituted herself while she was still Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors
- Ezekiel 23:9 מְאַֽהֲבֶ֑יהָ
Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, the Assyrians for whom she lusted.
- Ezekiel 23:22 מְאַהֲבַ֙יִךְ֙
Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will incite your lovers against you, those from whom you turned away in disgust. And I will bring them against you from every side—
- Daniel 9:4 לְאֹהֲבָ֖יו
And I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed, “O, Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of loving devotion to those who love Him and keep His commandments,
- Hosea 2:5 מְאַהֲבַי֙
For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’
- Hosea 2:7 מְאַהֲבֶ֙יהָ֙
She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will return to my first husband, for then I was better off than now.’
- Hosea 2:10 מְאַהֲבֶ֑יהָ
And then I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of My hands.
- Hosea 2:12 מְאַֽהֲבָ֑י
I will destroy her vines and fig trees, which she thinks are the wages paid by her lovers. So I will make them into a thicket, and the beasts of the field will devour them.
- Hosea 2:13 מְאַהֲבֶ֑יהָ
I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.
- Hosea 3:1 אֱֽהַב־אֲהֻ֥בַתוְאֹהֲבֵ֖י
Then the LORD said to me, “Go show love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and offer raisin cakes to idols.”
- Hosea 4:18 אָהֲב֥וּהֵב֛וּ
When their liquor is gone, they turn to prostitution; their rulers dearly love disgrace.
- Hosea 9:1 אָהַ֣בְתָּ
Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.
- Hosea 9:10 כְּאָהֳבָֽם׃
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved.
- Hosea 10:11 אֹהַ֣בְתִּי
Ephraim is a well-trained heifer that loves to thresh; but I will place a yoke on her fair neck. I will harness Ephraim, Judah will plow, and Jacob will break the hard ground.
- Hosea 11:1 וָאֹהֲבֵ֑הוּ
When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.
- Hosea 12:7 אָהֵֽב׃
A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.
- Hosea 14:4 אֹהֲבֵ֖ם
I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.
- Amos 4:5 אֲהַבְתֶּם֙
Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do,” declares the Lord GOD.
- Amos 5:15 וְאֶ֣הֱבוּ
Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
- Micah 3:2 וְאֹ֣הֲבֵי
You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.
- Micah 6:8 וְאַ֣הֲבַת
He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
- Zechariah 8:17 תֶּאֱהָ֑בוּ
do not plot evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love to swear falsely, for I hate all these things,” declares the LORD.
- Zechariah 8:19 אֱהָֽבוּ׃פ
“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become times of joy and gladness, cheerful feasts for the house of Judah. Therefore you are to love both truth and peace.”
- Zechariah 13:6 מְאַהֲבָֽי׃ס
If someone asks him, ‘What are these wounds on your chest ?’ he will answer, ‘These are the wounds I received in the house of my friends.’
- Malachi 1:2 אָהַ֤בְתִּיאֲהַבְתָּ֑נוּוָאֹהַ֖ב
“I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you ask, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet Jacob I have loved,
- Malachi 2:11 אָהֵ֔ב
Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.