# אַהַב (ahav)

Israeli respelling: a-hav. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H158. 2 Old Testament occurrences.

affection (in a good or a bad sense)

King James renderings: love(-r).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/ahav-h158

## Occurrences

- [Proverbs 5:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/5/19) — Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
- [Hosea 8:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/8/9) — For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.