{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H157",
  "lemma": "אָהַב",
  "transliteration": "ʼâhab",
  "definition": "to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)",
  "kjv": "(be-) love(-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.",
  "occurrences": 209,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "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"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 22:2",
      "text": "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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/22?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 24:67",
      "text": "Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=67"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 25:28",
      "text": "Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/25?v=28"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 27:4",
      "text": "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.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/27?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 27:9",
      "text": "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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/27?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 27:14",
      "text": "He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/27?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 29:18",
      "text": "Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/29?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 29:20",
      "text": "Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/29?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 29:30",
      "text": "He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him seven more years.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/29?v=30"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 29:32",
      "text": "Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because the LORD has looked at my affliction…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/29?v=32"
    }
  ],
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