H157 אָהַב
ʼâhab — to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)
KJV: (be-) love(-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.
Occurs 209 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- אָהֵב 216 vb. love
- Qal
- 1 human love to human object
- 2 less oft. of appetite
- 3 love to God
- 4 esp. Pt.
- 5 of divine love
- Niph. Pt. pl. lovely, loveable
- Pi.
- 1 friends
- 2 lovers
Where it occurs
- Genesis 22:2 — He said, “Now take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a…
- Genesis 24:67 — Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was…
- Genesis 25:28 — Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.
- Genesis 27:4 — Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die.”
- Genesis 27:9 — Go now to the flock and get me two good young goats from there. I will make them savory food for your father, such as…
- Genesis 27:14 — He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.
- Genesis 29:18 — Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”
- Genesis 29:20 — Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.
- Genesis 29:30 — He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him seven more years.
- Genesis 29:32 — Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because the LORD has looked at my affliction…