# H5689 עֲגַב

עֲגַב (ʻăgab), Strong’s H5689: to breathe after, i.e. to love (sensually) KJV: dote, lover.. Occurs 7 times.

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*ʻăgab* — to breathe after, i.e. to love (sensually)

KJV: dote, lover.

Occurs 7 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [עָגַב] vb. have inordinate affection, lust

## Where it occurs
- [Jeremiah 4:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/4?v=30) — You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck yourself…
- [Ezekiel 23:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/23?v=5) — “Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine. She doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,
- [Ezekiel 23:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/23?v=7) — She gave herself as a prostitute to them, all of them the choicest men of Assyria. She defiled herself with the idols…
- [Ezekiel 23:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/23?v=9) — “Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians on whom she doted.
- [Ezekiel 23:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/23?v=12) — She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and rulers—her neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses…
- [Ezekiel 23:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/23?v=16) — As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them into Kasdimah.
- [Ezekiel 23:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/23?v=20) — She lusted after their lovers, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.