אָהַבʼâhab
love
Pronunciation: aw-hab' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H157
Meanings
Qal: love (Genesis 27:9; Genesis 27:14; Genesis 37:3)
1. human love to human object (Ecclesiastes 3:8; Genesis 22:2; Genesis 25:28)
2. less often (Genesis 27:7; Genesis 27:9; Genesis 27:14)
3. love to God (Exodus 20:6; Deuteronomy 5:10; Deuteronomy 6:5)
4.
a lover (Lamentations 1:2)
b friend (1 Kings 5:15; Jeremiah 20:4; Jeremiah 20:6)
5. of divine love
Niph`al: lovely, loveable (2 Samuel 1:23)
Pi`el
1. friends (Zechariah 13:6)
2. lovers (Hosea 2:7; Hosea 2:9; Hosea 2:12)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 211 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 22:2 “Take your son, your only son—yes, Isaac, whom you love so much—and go to the land of Moriah. Go and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”
- Genesis 24:67 And Isaac brought Rebekah into his mother Sarah’s tent, and she became his wife. He loved her deeply, and she was a special comfort to him after the death of his mother.
- Genesis 25:28 Isaac loved Esau because he enjoyed eating the wild game Esau brought home, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
- Genesis 27:4 Prepare my favorite dish, and bring it here for me to eat. Then I will pronounce the blessing that belongs to you, my firstborn son, before I die.”
- Genesis 27:9 Go out to the flocks, and bring me two fine young goats. I’ll use them to prepare your father’s favorite dish.
- Genesis 27:14 So Jacob went out and got the young goats for his mother. Rebekah took them and prepared a delicious meal, just the way Isaac liked it.
See every passage
- Genesis 22:2, 24:67, 25:28, 27:4, 27:9, 27:14, 29:18, 29:30, 29:32, 34:3, 37:3, 37:4, 44:20
- Exodus 20:6, 21:5
- Leviticus 19:18, 19:34
- Deuteronomy 4:37, 5:10, 6:5, 7:9, 7:13, 10:12, 10:15, 10:18, 10:19, 11:1, 11:13, 11:22, 13:3, 15:16, 19:9, 21:15, 21:16, 23:5, 30:6, 30:16, 30:20
- Joshua 22:5, 23:11
- Judges 5:31, 14:16, 16:4, 16:15
- Ruth 4:15
- 1 Samuel 1:5, 16:21, 18:1, 18:16, 18:20, 18:22, 18:28, 20:17
- 2 Samuel 1:23, 12:24, 13:1, 13:4, 13:15, 19:6
- 1 Kings 3:3, 5:1, 10:9, 11:1
- 2 Chronicles 9:8, 11:21, 19:2, 20:7, 26:10
- Nehemiah 1:5, 13:26
- Esther 2:17, 5:10, 5:14, 6:13
- Job 19:19
- Psalms 4:2, 5:11, 11:5, 11:7, 26:8, 31:23, 33:5, 34:12, 37:28, 38:11, 40:16, 45:7, 47:4, 52:3, 52:4, 69:36, 70:4, 78:68, 87:2, 88:18, 97:10, 99:4, 109:17, 116:1, 119:47, 119:48, 119:97, 119:113, 119:119, 119:127, 119:132, 119:140, 119:159, 119:163, 119:165, 119:167, 122:6, 145:20, 146:8
- Proverbs 1:22, 3:12, 4:6, 8:17, 8:21, 8:36, 9:8, 12:1, 13:24, 14:20, 15:9, 15:12, 16:13, 17:17, 17:19, 18:21, 18:24, 19:8, 20:13, 21:17, 22:11, 27:6, 29:3
- Ecclesiastes 3:8, 5:10, 9:9
- Song of Solomon 1:3, 1:4, 1:7, 3:1, 3:2, 3:3, 3:4
- Isaiah 1:23, 41:8, 43:4, 48:14, 56:6, 56:10, 57:8, 61:8, 66:10
- Jeremiah 2:25, 5:31, 8:2, 14:10, 20:4, 20:6, 22:20, 22:22, 30:14, 31:3
- Lamentations 1:2, 1:19
- Ezekiel 16:33, 16:36, 16:37, 23:5, 23:9, 23:22
- Daniel 9:4
- Hosea 2:5, 2:7, 2:10, 2:12, 2:13, 3:1, 4:18, 9:1, 9:10, 10:11, 11:1, 12:7, 14:4
- Amos 4:5, 5:15
- Micah 3:2, 6:8
- Zechariah 8:17, 8:19, 13:6
- Malachi 1:2, 2:11
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).