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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 4 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. Isaiah 48:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  2. Isaiah 56:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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—

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  3. Isaiah 56:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  4. Isaiah 57:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  5. Isaiah 61:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  6. Isaiah 66:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Be glad for Jerusalem and rejoice over her, all who love her. Rejoice greatly with her, all who mourn over her,

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  7. Jeremiah 2:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.’

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  8. Jeremiah 5:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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?

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  9. Jeremiah 8:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  10. Jeremiah 14:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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 iniquity and punish them for their sins.”

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  11. Jeremiah 20:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  12. Jeremiah 20:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.’”

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  13. Jeremiah 22:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Go up to Lebanon and cry out; raise your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers have been crushed.

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  14. Jeremiah 22:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  15. Jeremiah 30:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  16. Jeremiah 31:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  17. Lamentations 1:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  18. Lamentations 1:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  19. Ezekiel 16:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  20. Ezekiel 16:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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,

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  21. Ezekiel 16:37 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    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.

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  22. Ezekiel 23:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Oholah prostituted herself while she was still Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors

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  23. Ezekiel 23:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, the Assyrians for whom she lusted.

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  24. Ezekiel 23:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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—

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  25. Daniel 9:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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,

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  26. Hosea 2:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.’

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    Source alternate reference: 2.7

  27. Hosea 2:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.’

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    Source alternate reference: 2.9

  28. Hosea 2:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And then I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of My hands.

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    Source alternate reference: 2.12

  29. Hosea 2:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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    Source alternate reference: 2.14

  30. Hosea 2:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she adorned herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.

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    Source alternate reference: 2.15

  31. Hosea 3:1 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    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 love to offer raisin cakes to idols.”

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  32. Hosea 4:18 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    When their liquor is gone, they turn to prostitution; their rulers dearly love disgrace.

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  33. Hosea 9:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  34. Hosea 9:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  35. Hosea 10:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  36. Hosea 11:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.

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  37. Hosea 12:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.

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    Source alternate reference: 12.8

  38. Hosea 14:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I will heal their apostasy; I will freely love them, for My anger has turned away from them.

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    Source alternate reference: 14.5

  39. Amos 4:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  40. Amos 5:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.”

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  41. Micah 3:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.

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  42. Micah 6:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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?

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  43. Zechariah 8:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  44. Zechariah 8:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “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.”

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  45. Zechariah 13:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.’

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  46. Malachi 1:2 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    “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,

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  47. Malachi 2:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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