Occurrences
ʼahăbâh occurs 36 times in 33 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Deuteronomy (1), 1 Samuel (1), 2 Samuel (2), 2 Chronicles (2), Psalms (2), Proverbs (5), Ecclesiastes (2), Song of Songs (10), Isaiah (1), Jeremiah (3), Hosea (2), Zephaniah (1)
- Genesis 29:20 — And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love (בְּאַהֲבָת֖וֹ) he had to her.
- Deuteronomy 7:8 — But because the LORD loved (מֵֽאַהֲבַ֨ת) you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
- 1 Samuel 20:17 — And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved (בְּאַהֲבָת֖וֹ) him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
- 1 Samuel 20:17 — And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved (אַהֲבַ֥ת) his own soul.
- 2 Samuel 1:26 — I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love (אַהֲבָֽתְךָ֙) to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
- 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 (מֵאַהֲבַ֖ת) of women.
- 2 Samuel 13:15 — Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love (מֵאַהֲבָ֖ה) wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone.
- 2 Chronicles 2:11 — Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because the LORD hath loved (בְּאַהֲבַ֤ת) his people, he hath made thee king over them.
- 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 Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.
- Psalms 109:4 — For my love (אַהֲבָתִ֥י) they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
- Psalms 109:5 — And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love (אַהֲבָתִֽי).
- 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 (בְּ֝אַהֲבָתָ֗הּ).
- Proverbs 10:12 — Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love (אַהֲבָֽה) covereth all sins.
- Proverbs 15:17 — Better is a dinner of herbs where love (וְאַהֲבָה) is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
- Proverbs 17:9 — He that covereth a transgression seeketh love (אַהֲבָ֑ה); but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
- Proverbs 27:5 — Open rebuke is better than secret love (מֵֽאַהֲבָ֥ה).
- 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: no man knoweth either love (אַהֲבָ֣ה) or hatred by all that is before them.
- Ecclesiastes 9:6 — Also their love (אַהֲבָתָ֧ם), and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
- Song of Songs 2:4 — He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love (אַהֲבָֽה).
- Song of Songs 2:5 — Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love (אַהֲבָ֖ה).
- Song of Songs 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 (הָאַהֲבָ֖ה), till he please.
- Song of Songs 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 (הָאַהֲבָ֖ה), till he please.
- Song of Songs 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 (אַהֲבָ֔ה), for the daughters of Jerusalem.
- Song of Songs 5:8 — I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love (אַהֲבָ֖ה).
- Song of Songs 7:6 — How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love (אַהֲבָ֖ה), for delights!
- Song of Songs 8:4 — I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love (הָאַהֲבָ֖ה), until he please.
- Song of Songs 8:6 — Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love (אַהֲבָ֔ה) is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
- Song of Songs 8:7 — Many waters cannot quench love (הָֽאַהֲבָ֔ה), neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
- Song of Songs 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 (בָּאַהֲבָ֔ה), it would utterly be contemned.
- Isaiah 63:9 — In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love (בְּאַהֲבָת֥וֹ) and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
- 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 (אַהֲבַ֖ת) of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
- Jeremiah 2:33 — Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love (אַהֲבָ֑ה)? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
- Jeremiah 31:3 — The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love (וְאַהֲבַ֤ת): therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
- 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 (כְּאַהֲבַ֤ת) of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.
- Hosea 11:4 — I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love (אַהֲבָ֔ה): and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.
- 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 (בְּאַ֣הֲבָת֔וֹ), he will joy over thee with singing.