Occurrences
ʼâhab occurs 212 times in 199 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (13), Exodus (2), Leviticus (2), Deuteronomy (21), Joshua (2), Judges (4), Ruth (1), 1 Samuel (9), 2 Samuel (6), 1 Kings (5), 2 Chronicles (4), Nehemiah (2), Esther (4), Job (1), Psalms (39), Proverbs (23), Ecclesiastes (3), Song of Songs (7), Isaiah (9), Jeremiah (10), Lamentations (2), Ezekiel (6), Daniel (1), Hosea (14), Amos (2), Micah (2), Zechariah (3), Malachi (2)
- Genesis 22:2 — And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest (אָהַ֙בְתָּ֙), and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
- Genesis 24:67 — And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved (וַיֶּאֱהָבֶ֑הָ) her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
- Genesis 25:28 — And Isaac loved (וַיֶּאֱהַ֥ב) Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.
- Genesis 25:28 — And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved (אֹהֶ֥בֶת) Jacob.
- Genesis 27:4 — And make me savoury meat, such as I love (אָהַ֛בְתִּי), and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
- Genesis 27:9 — Go 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 loveth (אָהֵֽב):
- Genesis 27:14 — And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved (אָהֵ֥ב).
- Genesis 29:18 — And Jacob loved (וַיֶּאֱהַ֥ב) Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
- Genesis 29:30 — And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved (וַיֶּאֱהַ֥ב) also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
- Genesis 29:32 — And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love (יֶאֱהָבַ֥נִי) me.
- Genesis 34:3 — And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved (וַיֶּֽאֱהַב֙) the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.
- Genesis 37:3 — Now Israel loved (אָהַ֤ב) 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 37:4 — And when his brethren saw that their father loved (אָהַ֤ב) him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.
- Genesis 44:20 — And 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 left of his mother, and his father loveth (אֲהֵבֽוֹ) him.
- Exodus 20:6 — And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love (לְאֹהֲבַ֖י) me, and keep my commandments.
- Exodus 21:5 — And if the servant shall plainly say, I love (אָהַ֙בְתִּי֙) my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
- Leviticus 19:18 — Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love (וְאָֽהַבְתָּ֥) thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
- Leviticus 19:34 — But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love (וְאָהַבְתָּ֥) him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
- Deuteronomy 4:37 — And because he loved (אָהַב֙) thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;
- Deuteronomy 5:10 — And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love (לְאֹהֲבַ֖י) me and keep my commandments.
- Deuteronomy 6:5 — And thou shalt love (וְאָ֣הַבְתָּ֔) the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
- Deuteronomy 7:9 — Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love (לְאֹהֲבָ֛יו) him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
- Deuteronomy 7:13 — And he will love (וַאֲהֵ֣בְךָ֔) thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
- Deuteronomy 10:12 — And 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 (וּלְאַהֲבָ֣ה) him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
- Deuteronomy 10:15 — Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love (לְאַהֲבָ֣ה) them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
- Deuteronomy 10:18 — He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth (וְאֹהֵ֣ב) the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
- Deuteronomy 10:19 — Love (וַאֲהַבְתֶּ֖ם) ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 11:1 — Therefore thou shalt love (וְאָ֣הַבְתָּ֔) the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
- Deuteronomy 11:13 — And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love (לְאַהֲבָ֞ה) the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
- Deuteronomy 11:22 — For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love (לְאַהֲבָ֞ה) the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;
- Deuteronomy 13:3 — Thou 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 love (אֹֽהֲבִים֙) the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Deuteronomy 15:16 — And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth (אֲהֵֽבְךָ֙) thee and thine house, because he is well with thee;
- Deuteronomy 19:9 — If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love (לְאַהֲבָ֞ה) the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:
- Deuteronomy 21:15 — If a man have two wives, one beloved (אֲהוּבָה֙), and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:
- Deuteronomy 21:15 — If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved (הָאֲהוּבָ֖ה) and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:
- Deuteronomy 21:16 — Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved (הָ֣אֲהוּבָ֔ה) firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:
- Deuteronomy 23:5 — Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved (אֲהֵֽבְךָ֖) thee.
- Deuteronomy 30:6 — And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love (לְאַהֲבָ֞ה) the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
- Deuteronomy 30:16 — In that I command thee this day to love (לְאַהֲבָ֞ה) the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
- Deuteronomy 30:20 — That thou mayest love (לְאַֽהֲבָה֙) the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
- Joshua 22:5 — But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love (לְ֠אַהֲבָה) the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Joshua 23:11 — Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love (לְאַהֲבָ֖ה) the LORD your God.
- Judges 5:31 — So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love (וְאֹ֣הֲבָ֔יו) him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
- Judges 14:16 — And Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest (אֲהַבְתָּ֔נִי) me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee?
- Judges 16:4 — And it came to pass afterward, that he loved (וַיֶּאֱהַ֥ב) a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
- Judges 16:15 — And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love (אֲהַבְתִּ֔יךְ) thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.
- Ruth 4:15 — And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth (אֲהֵבַ֙תֶךְ֙) thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.
- 1 Samuel 1:5 — But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved (אָהֵ֔ב) Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.
- 1 Samuel 16:21 — And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved (וַיֶּאֱהָבֵ֣הֽוּ) him greatly; and he became his armourbearer.
- 1 Samuel 18:1 — And 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 loved (וַיֶּאֱהָבֵ֥הוּ) him as his own soul.