# אַהֲבָה (ahavah)

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

Strong’s H160. 37 Old Testament occurrences.

{affection (in a good or a bad sense)}

King James renderings: love.

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/ahavah-h160

## Occurrences

- [Deuteronomy 7:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/7/8) — But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with…
- [1 Samuel 18:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/18/3) — Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
- [1 Samuel 20:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/20/17) — And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
- [2 Samuel 1:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/1/26) — I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of wome…
- [2 Samuel 13:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/13/15) — Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon…
- [1 Kings 10:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/10/9) — Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefor…
- [1 Kings 11:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/11/2) — Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you:…
- [2 Chronicles 2:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/2/11) — Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because the LORD hath loved his people, he hath made thee king o…
- [2 Chronicles 9:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/9/8) — Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, to be king for the LORD thy God: because thy God loved Isra…
- [Psalms 109:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/109/4) — For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
- [Psalms 109:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/109/5) — And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
- [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.
- [Proverbs 10:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/10/12) — Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
- [Proverbs 15:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/15/17) — Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
- [Proverbs 17:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/17/9) — He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
- [Proverbs 27:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/27/5) — Open rebuke is better than secret love.
- [Ecclesiastes 9:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/9/1) — For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God:…
- [Ecclesiastes 9:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/9/6) — Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done…
- [Song of Solomon 2:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/2/4) — He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.
- [Song of Solomon 2:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/2/5) — Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
- [Song of Solomon 2:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/2/7) — I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he plea…
- [Song of Solomon 3:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/3/5) — I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he plea…
- [Song of Solomon 3:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/3/10) — He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, f…
- [Song of Solomon 5:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/5/8) — I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
- [Song of Solomon 7:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/7/6) — How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
- [Song of Solomon 8:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/8/4) — I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.
- [Song of Solomon 8:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/8/6) — Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof…
- [Song of Solomon 8:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/8/7) — Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utte…
- [Isaiah 63:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/63/9) — In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he ba…
- [Jeremiah 2:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/2/2) — Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals,…
- [Jeremiah 2:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/2/33) — Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
- [Jeremiah 31:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/31/3) — The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn…
- [Hosea 3:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/3/1) — Then 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 9:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/9/15) — All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will l…
- [Hosea 11:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/11/4) — I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto t…
- [Micah 6:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/6/8) — He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly w…
- [Zephaniah 3:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/3/17) — The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy ov…