'ahab

aw-hab'
Parts of Speech Verb

'ahab Definition

NAS Word Usage - Total: 217
  1. to love
    1. (Qal)
      1. human love for another, includes family, and sexual
      2. human appetite for objects such as food, drink, sleep, wisdom
      3. human love for or to God
      4. act of being a friend 1a
    2. lover (participle) 1a
    3. friend (participle)
      1. God's love toward man 1a
    4. to individual men 1a
    5. to people Israel 1a
    6. to righteousness
    7. (Niphal)
      1. lovely (participle)
      2. loveable (participle)
    8. (Piel)
      1. friends
      2. lovers (fig. of adulterers)
  2. to like
Audio Pronunciation
Original Language
bha
Origin
a primitive root
Strong's Number
157
TDNT Entry
TWOT - 29

NAS Word Usage

beloved
1
dearly love
1
friend
5
friends
6
love
88
loved
53
lover
1
lovers
16
loves
42
loving
2
show your love
1
shows love
1
Total
217

The Hebrew lexicon is Brown, Driver, Briggs, Gesenius Lexicon; this is keyed to the "Theological Word Book of the Old Testament." These files are considered public domain.

Brown, Driver, Briggs and Gesenius. "Hebrew Lexicon entry for 'ahab". "The NAS Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon". . .