# H157 אָהַב

אָהַב (ʼâhab), Strong’s H157: to have affection for (sexually or otherwise) KJV: (be-) love(-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.. Occurs 209 times.

Source: https://besorah.bible/word/H157 — Besorah, the whole Bible in Hebrew, Greek and English. Texts and licences: https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html

*ʼâhab* — to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)

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

Occurs 209 times.

## 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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/22?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/25?v=28) — Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.
- [Genesis 27:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/27?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/27?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/27?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/29?v=18) — Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”
- [Genesis 29:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/29?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/29?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/29?v=32) — Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because the LORD has looked at my affliction…