Strong’s H157

אָהַב

ahav · 195 Old Testament occurrences

King James renderings: (be-) love(-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.

Every Old Testament occurrence

• Genesis 22:2And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burn…
• Genesis 24:67And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted af…
• Genesis 25:28And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.
• Genesis 27:4And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
• Genesis 27:9Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he love…
• Genesis 27:14And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.
• Genesis 29:18And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
• Genesis 29:20And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
• Genesis 29:30And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
• Genesis 29:32And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now there…
• Genesis 34:3And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.
• Genesis 37:3Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.
• Genesis 37:4And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.
• Genesis 44:20And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is…
• Exodus 20:6And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
• Exodus 21:5And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
• Leviticus 19:18Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
• Leviticus 19:34But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers…
• Deuteronomy 4:37And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of…
• Deuteronomy 5:10And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
• Deuteronomy 6:5And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
• Deuteronomy 7:9Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his co…
• Deuteronomy 7:13And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, an…
• Deuteronomy 10:12And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to…
• Deuteronomy 10:15Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
• Deuteronomy 10:18He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
• Deuteronomy 10:19Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
• Deuteronomy 11:1Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
• Deuteronomy 11:13And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and…
• Deuteronomy 11:22For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways,…
• Deuteronomy 13:3Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye lov…
• Deuteronomy 15:16And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee;
• Deuteronomy 19:9If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways…
• Deuteronomy 21:15If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstb…
• Deuteronomy 21:16Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the s…
• Deuteronomy 23:5Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the L…
• Deuteronomy 30:6And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all th…
• Deuteronomy 30:16In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgme…
• Deuteronomy 30:20That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and…
• Joshua 22:5But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and t…
• Joshua 23:11Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.
• Judges 5:31So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest f…
• Judges 14:16And Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my…
• Judges 16:4And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
• Judges 16:15And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast no…
• Ruth 4:15And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is be…
• 1 Samuel 1:5But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.
• 1 Samuel 16:21And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armourbearer.
• 1 Samuel 18:1And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan…
• 1 Samuel 18:16But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came in before them.
• 1 Samuel 18:20And Michal Saul’s daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
• 1 Samuel 18:22And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants…
• 1 Samuel 18:28And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal Saul’s daughter loved him.
• 1 Samuel 20:17And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
• 2 Samuel 1:23Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they we…
• 2 Samuel 12:24And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the…
• 2 Samuel 13:1And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.
• 2 Samuel 13:4And he said unto him, Why art thou, being the king’s son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tama…
• 2 Samuel 13:15Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon…
• 2 Samuel 19:6In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servant…
• 1 Kings 3:3And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
• 1 Kings 5:1And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hira…
• 1 Kings 11:1But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, an…
• 2 Chronicles 11:21And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore conc…
• 2 Chronicles 19:2And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that…
• 2 Chronicles 20:7Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy f…
• 2 Chronicles 26:10Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen a…
• Nehemiah 1:5And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and obse…
• Nehemiah 13:26Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God…
• Esther 2:17And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the…
• Esther 5:10Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.
• Esther 5:14Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king…
• Esther 6:13And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him,…
• Job 19:19All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
• Psalms 4:2O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.
• Psalms 5:11But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love t…
• Psalms 11:5The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
• Psalms 11:7For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.
• Psalms 26:8LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
• Psalms 31:23O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
• Psalms 33:5He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.
• Psalms 34:12What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
• Psalms 37:28For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
• Psalms 38:11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
• Psalms 40:16Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
• Psalms 45:7Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
• Psalms 47:4He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
• Psalms 52:3Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
• Psalms 52:4Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
• Psalms 69:36The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
• Psalms 70:4Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
• Psalms 78:68But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
• Psalms 87:2The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
• Psalms 88:18Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
• Psalms 97:10Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
• Psalms 99:4The king’s strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
• Psalms 109:17As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
• Psalms 116:1I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.
• Psalms 119:47And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
• Psalms 119:48My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.
• Psalms 119:97O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
• Psalms 119:113I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.
• Psalms 119:119Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.
• Psalms 119:127Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
• Psalms 119:132Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.
• Psalms 119:140Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.
• Psalms 119:159Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
• Psalms 119:163I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
• Psalms 119:165Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
• Psalms 119:167My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.
• Psalms 122:6Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
• Psalms 145:20The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.
• Psalms 146:8The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:
• Proverbs 1:22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
• Proverbs 3:12For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
• Proverbs 4:6Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
• Proverbs 8:17I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
• Proverbs 8:21That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.
• Proverbs 8:36But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
• Proverbs 9:8Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
• Proverbs 12:1Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
• Proverbs 13:24He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
• Proverbs 14:20The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.
• Proverbs 15:9The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.
• Proverbs 15:12A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.
• Proverbs 16:13Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.
• Proverbs 17:17A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
• Proverbs 17:19He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.
• Proverbs 18:21Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
• Proverbs 18:24A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
• Proverbs 19:8He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.
• Proverbs 20:13Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
• Proverbs 21:17He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
• Proverbs 22:11He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.
• Proverbs 27:6Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
• Proverbs 29:3Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.
• Ecclesiastes 3:8A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
• Ecclesiastes 5:10He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
• Ecclesiastes 9:9Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days o…
• Song of Solomon 1:3Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
• Song of Solomon 1:4Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love…
• Song of Solomon 1:7Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turne…
• Song of Solomon 3:1By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
• Song of Solomon 3:2I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found…
• Song of Solomon 3:3The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
• Song of Solomon 3:4It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought…
• Isaiah 1:23Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless,…
• Isaiah 41:8But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
• Isaiah 43:4Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for…
• Isaiah 48:14All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The LORD hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Bab…
• Isaiah 56:6Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every…
• Isaiah 56:10His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
• Isaiah 57:8Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up;…
• Isaiah 61:8For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting cove…
• Isaiah 66:10Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:
• Jeremiah 2:25Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and aft…
• Jeremiah 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end t…
• Jeremiah 8:2And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and a…
• Jeremiah 14:10Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accep…
• Jeremiah 20:4For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their en…
• Jeremiah 20:6And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and…
• Jeremiah 22:20Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.
• Jeremiah 22:22The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy…
• Jeremiah 30:14All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a crue…
• Jeremiah 31:3The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn…
• Lamentations 1:2She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dea…
• Lamentations 1:19I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to rel…
• Ezekiel 16:33They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for…
• Ezekiel 16:36Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and wit…
• Ezekiel 16:37Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that t…
• Ezekiel 23:5And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,
• Ezekiel 23:9Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.
• Ezekiel 23:22Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I wil…
• Daniel 9:4And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to…
• Hosea 2:5For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give m…
• Hosea 2:7And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she sa…
• Hosea 2:10And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
• Hosea 2:12And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make t…
• Hosea 2:13And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels,…
• Hosea 3:1Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the chi…
• Hosea 4:18Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.
• Hosea 9:1Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
• Hosea 9:10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalp…
• Hosea 10:11And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to…
• Hosea 11:1When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
• Hosea 12:7He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
• Hosea 14:4I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
• Amos 4:5And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israe…
• Amos 5:15Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnan…
• Micah 3:2Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
• Zechariah 8:17And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith…
• Zechariah 8:19Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the ten…
• Zechariah 13:6And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my f…
• Malachi 1:2I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,
• Malachi 2:11Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LOR…