אַהַב
ʼahab · H158 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to be lovely
State of having a type of beauty that inspires feelings of affection in someone else
ExamplesProverbs 5:19 Like a loving doe and a graceful mountain goat, Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; Be exhilarated always with her love.
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lover, loved one, love gift
Exact meaning unsure; probably: person to which one directs one's feelings of affection, or objects given as token of one's love
ExamplesHosea 8:9 For they have gone up to Assyria, Like a wild donkey all alone; Ephraim has paid fees for lovers.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- תָּנָהto hire 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אַיֶּלֶת(female) fallow deer 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Good002001001031
- אַהַב describes something pleasing or delightful, as the lover's caresses meant to satisfy at all times.
- People001001003
- The word can also name a lover, a person sought after in a relationship, as Ephraim's paid lovers in Hosea.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Also from the root אָהַב
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H158. ahab [אַ֫הַב] noun [masculine] love only plural אֲהָבִים, loves, amours; bad sense…
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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