אַהֲבָה (a.ha.vah) means “love” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: a-hab-aw Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
אַהֲבָה · a.ha.vah · love
1) love 1a) human love for human object 1a1) of man toward man 1a2) of man toward himself 1a3) between man and woman 1a4) sexual desire 2) God's love to His people
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feminine of H158 (אַהַב) and meaning the same {affection (in a good or a bad sense)}
KJV glosses: love.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| love | 10 |
| with love | 3 |
| my love | 2 |
| your love | 2 |
| as he loved | 1 |
| because he loved | 1 |
| because of his love | 1 |
| but love | 1 |
| by her love | 1 |
| for love | 1 |
| in his love | 1 |
| in love | 1 |
| love her | 1 |
| love them | 1 |
| loved | 1 |
| loves | 1 |
| o love | 1 |
| of love | 1 |
| out of love | 1 |
| surpassing the love | 1 |
| than love | 1 |
| the love | 1 |
| their love | 1 |
| there is love | 1 |
| with his love | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| love | 11 |
| loved | 3 |
| of love | 3 |
| because he loved | 2 |
| for love | 2 |
| for my love | 2 |
| according to the love | 1 |
| also their love | 1 |
| and to love | 1 |
| art thou o love | 1 |
| but love | 1 |
| for the love he had | 1 |
| hast thou been unto me thy love | 1 |
| hath loved | 1 |
| him as he loved | 1 |
| i will love | 1 |
| in his love | 1 |
| passing the love | 1 |
| than the love | 1 |
| the love | 1 |
| them in his love | 1 |
| where love | 1 |
| with her love | 1 |
Page 1 of 1. 35 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet it seemed but a few days because of his love for her.
Read word by wordBut because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He swore to your fathers, He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Read word by wordThen Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.
Read word by wordAnd Jonathan had David reaffirm his vow out of love for him, for Jonathan loved David as he loved himself.
Read word by wordI grieve for you, Jonathan, my brother. You were delightful to me; your love to me was extraordinary, surpassing the love of women.
Read word by wordThen 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!”
Read word by wordThese women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.
Read word by wordThen Hiram king of Tyre wrote a letter in reply to Solomon: “Because the LORD loves His people, He has set you over them as king.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 2.10
In return for my love they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.
Read word by wordThey repay me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
Read word by wordA loving doe, a graceful fawn—may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.
Read word by wordHatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.
Read word by wordBetter a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.
Read word by wordWhoever conceals an offense promotes love, but he who brings it up separates friends.
Read word by wordBetter an open rebuke than love that is concealed.
Read word by wordSo I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.
Read word by wordTheir love, their hate, and their envy have already vanished, and they will never again have a share in all that is done under the sun.
Read word by wordHe has brought me to the house of wine, and his banner over me is love.
Read word by wordSustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.
Read word by wordO daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.
Read word by wordO daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.
Read word by wordHe has made its posts of silver, its base of gold, its seat of purple fabric. Its interior is inlaid with love by the daughters of Jerusalem.
Read word by wordO daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you, if you find my beloved, tell him I am sick with love.
Read word by wordHow fair and pleasant you are, O love, with your delights!
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 7.7
O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.
Read word by wordSet me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all.
Read word by wordMighty waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, his offer would be utterly scorned.
Read word by wordIn all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
Read word by word“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
Read word by wordHow skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways.
Read word by wordThe LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.
Read word by wordThen 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.”
Read word by wordAll their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them from My house for the wickedness of their deeds. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.
Read word by wordI led them with cords of kindness, with ropes of love; I lifted the yoke from their necks and bent down to feed them.
Read word by wordThe LORD your God is among you; He is mighty to save. He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing.”
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