'ahab

aw-hab'
Verb
  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
0157
TDNT Entry
TWOT - 29

KJV Word Usage

love
169
lover(s)
19
friend(s)
12
beloved
5
liketh
1
lovely
1
loving
1
Total
208

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 KJV Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon". . .