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a.hav H157

אָהֵב (a.hav) means “to love: lover” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

אָהֵב Hebrew · H157 211 tagged occurrences in 197 verses

Pronunciation guide: aw-hab' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H0157G

אָהֵב · a.hav · to love: lover

: lover 1) to love 1a) (Qal) 1a1) human love for another, includes family, and sexual 1a2) human appetite for objects such as food, drink, sleep, wisdom 1a3) human love for or to God 1a4) act of being a friend 1a4a) lover (participle) 1a4b) friend (participle) 1a5) God's love toward man 1a5a) to individual men 1a5b) to people Israel 1a5c) to righteousness 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) lovely (participle) 1b2) loveable (participle) 1c) (Piel) 1c1) friends 1c2) lovers (fig. of adulterers) 2) to like Also means: a.hav (אָהֵב ": friend" H0157H)

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TBESH · H0157H

אָהֵב · a.hav · to love: friend

: friend 1) to love 1a) (Qal) 1a1) human love for another, includes family, and sexual 1a2) human appetite for objects such as food, drink, sleep, wisdom 1a3) human love for or to God 1a4) act of being a friend 1a4a) lover (participle) 1a4b) friend (participle) 1a5) God's love toward man 1a5a) to individual men 1a5b) to people Israel 1a5c) to righteousness 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) lovely (participle) 1b2) loveable (participle) 1c) (Piel) 1c1) friends 1c2) lovers (fig. of adulterers) 2) to like

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

or אָהֵב ; a primitive root; to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)

KJV glosses: (be-) love(-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.

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How translators render H157

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
love 15
i love 13
loved 13
loves 11
he loved 7
to love 7
he loves 5
you love 5
your lovers 5
and love 4
beloved 4
he who loves 4
her lovers 4
his friends 3
a friend 2
i have loved 2
love you 2
loving 2
may those who love 2
of her lovers 2
of those who love me 2
to those who love 2
you have loved 2
your friends 2
a lover 1
adore you 1
and both 1
and he loves 1
and he will love you 1
and love them 1
and love to offer 1
and loved 1
and that you may love 1
and those who love 1
and those who love it 1
and you shall love 1
and you will love 1
and your lovers 1
as the thing they loved 1
but he loves 1
but he who loves him 1
but love 1
but may those who love you 1
by her lovers 1
chosen ally 1
dearly love 1
fell in love 1
have you loved us 1
he previously had 1
he will love you 1
how long will you love 1
i have loved you 1
i love them 1
i love you 1
i loved him 1
in love 1
is beloved 1
jonathan loved david 1
love her 1
love me 1
love them 1
love to do 1
loved david 1
loved her 1
loved him 1
loved the child 1
loves him 1
loves it 1
loves you 1
may those who love you 1
my beloved 1
my friend 1
my lovers 1
o you who love 1
of a friend 1
of my friends 1
of the beloved wife 1
of those who love him 1
on those who love me 1
samson fell in love with 1
saul loved him 1
show love 1
so you also must love 1
that loves 1
that they adore you 1
that those who love 1
that you love 1
the lord loves 1
the lover 1
the lovers 1
the one who loves 1
therefore you are to love 1
they have loved 1
they love 1
those who love me 1
those who love you 1
though she is loved 1
to love him 1
to my lovers 1
to those who love him 1
who desires 1
who love 1
who love her 1
who love him 1
who loves 1
whoever loves 1
will love me 1
will you love 1
with those who love him 1
you have made love 1
you loved 1
you shall therefore love 1
your beloved 1
your friend 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
loveth 19
loved 17
love 8
to love 6
and love 5
i love 5
he that loveth 4
and he loved 3
he loveth 3
thou lovest 3
all thy lovers 2
and all his friends 2
and he will love 2
beloved 2
do i love 2
for he loved 2
i have loved 2
my lovers 2
of her lovers 2
of them that love 2
them that love 2
therefore i love 2
which he loved 2
which i have loved 2
whom thou lovest 2
will ye love 2
a friend 1
a lover 1
after her lovers 1
all them that love 1
also loveth 1
among all her lovers 1
among you and thou shalt love 1
and because he loved 1
and him that loveth 1
and i have loved 1
and i love 1
and loveth 1
and they love 1
and they that love 1
and thou shalt love 1
and thy lovers 1
and to love 1
as he loved 1
but he loveth 1
but he that loveth 1
but thou shalt love 1
do love 1
every one loveth 1
for all thy lovers 1
for his friends 1
for my lovers 1
for them that love 1
friends 1
from thee because he loveth 1
hath loved 1
have they which love 1
her lovers 1
him and he loved 1
him and to love 1
him for he loved 1
how i love 1
i will love 1
in that thou lovest 1
in thee and let such as love 1
in thee let such as love 1
it and they that love 1
like him who was beloved 1
liketh 1
lovely 1
lover 1
loving 1
me and lovest 1
me and they whom i loved 1
me love 1
my friend 1
no for i have loved 1
nor he that loveth 1
o how love i 1
o love 1
of a friend 1
of my friends 1
of the beloved 1
on her lovers 1
such as he loveth 1
that he loved 1
that i may cause those that love 1
that love 1
that loveth 1
that my lovers 1
that thou hast loved 1
that thou mayest love 1
that ye love 1
the beloved 1
thee love 1
them let them also that love 1
them to love 1
then i loved 1
there thou and all thy friends 1
therefore love 1
therefore thou shalt love 1
thou hast loved 1
thus have they loved 1
thy friend 1
thy friends 1
thy lovers 1
to all thy lovers 1
to do unto those that love 1
to them that love 1
to thyself and to all thy friends 1
unto him i love 1
unto these in love 1
were according as they loved 1
wherein hast thou loved 1
wherewith he had loved 1
which loveth 1
whom he loved 1
whom they have loved 1
whoso loveth 1
will love 1
with her all ye that love 1
with them that love 1
with them thou lovedst 1
with thy lovers 1
ye that love 1
yea i have loved 1
yet i loved 1
yet love 1
you to love 1

Verses containing H157

Page 1 of 4. 197 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Genesis 22:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “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.”

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  2. Genesis 24:67 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  3. Genesis 25:28 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.

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  4. Genesis 27:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then prepare a tasty dish that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.”

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  5. Genesis 27:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  6. Genesis 27:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.

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  7. Genesis 29:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

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  8. Genesis 29:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.

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  9. Genesis 29:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.”

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  10. Genesis 34:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And his soul was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke to her tenderly.

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  11. Genesis 37:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  12. Genesis 37:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  13. Genesis 44:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.’

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  14. Exodus 20:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.

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  15. Exodus 21:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children; I do not want to go free,’

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  16. Leviticus 19:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

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  17. Leviticus 19:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  18. Deuteronomy 4:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,

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  19. Deuteronomy 5:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.

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  20. Deuteronomy 6:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

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  21. Deuteronomy 7:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  22. Deuteronomy 7:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  23. Deuteronomy 10:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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,

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  24. Deuteronomy 10:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  25. Deuteronomy 10:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.

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  26. Deuteronomy 10:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So you also must love the foreigner, since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

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  27. Deuteronomy 11:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You shall therefore love the LORD your God and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and His commandments.

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  28. Deuteronomy 11:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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,

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  29. Deuteronomy 11:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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—

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  30. Deuteronomy 13:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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    Source alternate reference: 13.4

  31. Deuteronomy 15:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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,

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  32. Deuteronomy 19:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  33. Deuteronomy 21:15 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    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,

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  34. Deuteronomy 21:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  35. Deuteronomy 23:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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    Source alternate reference: 23.6

  36. Deuteronomy 30:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  37. Deuteronomy 30:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  38. Deuteronomy 30:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.”

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  39. Joshua 22:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.”

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  40. Joshua 23:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God.

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  41. Judges 5:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  42. Judges 14:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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?”

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  43. Judges 16:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Some time later, Samson fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

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  44. Judges 16:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “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!”

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  45. Ruth 4:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.”

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  46. 1 Samuel 1:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved her even though the LORD had closed her womb.

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  47. 1 Samuel 16:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When David came to Saul and entered his service, Saul loved him very much, and David became his armor-bearer.

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  48. 1 Samuel 18:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    After David had finished speaking with Saul, the souls of Jonathan and David were knit together, and Jonathan loved him as himself.

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  49. 1 Samuel 18:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he was leading them out to battle and back.

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  50. 1 Samuel 18:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now Saul’s daughter Michal loved David, and when this was reported to Saul, it pleased him.

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