Strong's Concordance H157

Original Word: אָהַב
Transliteration: ʼâhab
Phonetic Spelling: aw-hab'
or אָהֵב ; a primitive root; to have affection for (sexually or otherwise); (be-) love(-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.

Usages throughout the bible

Isaiah 56:6 - Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love H157 the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;

Isaiah 56:10 - His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving H157 to slumber.

Isaiah 57:8 - Behind 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; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst H157 their bed where thou sawest it.

Isaiah 61:8 - For I the LORD love H157 judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

Isaiah 66:10 - Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love H157 her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:

Jeremiah 2:25 - Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved H157 strangers, and after them will I go.

Jeremiah 5:31 - The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love H157 to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

Jeremiah 8:2 - And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, H157 and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

Jeremiah 14:10 - Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved H157 to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

Jeremiah 20:4 - For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: H157 and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.

Jeremiah 20:6 - And 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 shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, H157 to whom thou hast prophesied lies.

Jeremiah 22:20 - Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers H157 are destroyed.

Jeremiah 22:22 - The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers H157 shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.

Jeremiah 30:14 - All thy lovers H157 have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.

Jeremiah 31:3 - The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved H157 thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

Lamentations 1:2 - She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers H157 she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

Lamentations 1:19 - I called for my lovers, H157 but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.

Ezekiel 16:33 - They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, H157 and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.

Ezekiel 16:36 - Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, H157 and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;

Ezekiel 16:37 - Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, H157 with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, H157 with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.

Ezekiel 23:5 - And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, H157 on the Assyrians her neighbours,

Ezekiel 23:9 - Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, H157 into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.

Ezekiel 23:22 - Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers H157 against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;

Daniel 9:4 - And 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 them that love H157 him, and to them that keep his commandments;

Hosea 2:5 - For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, H157 that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.

Hosea 2:7 - And she shall follow after her lovers, H157 but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.

Hosea 2:10 - And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, H157 and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.

Hosea 2:12 - And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers H157 have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

Hosea 2:13 - And 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, and she went after her lovers, H157 and forgat me, saith the LORD.

Hosea 3:1 - Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love H157 a woman beloved H157 of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love H157 flagons of wine.

Hosea 4:18 - Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, H157 Give ye.

Hosea 9:1 - Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved H157 a reward upon every cornfloor.

Hosea 9:10 - I 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 Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved. H157

Hosea 10:11 - And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth H157 to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.

Hosea 11:1 - When Israel was a child, then I loved H157 him, and called my son out of Egypt.

Hosea 12:7 - He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth H157 to oppress.

Hosea 14:4 - I will heal their backsliding, I will love H157 them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.

Amos 4:5 - And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh H157 you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

Amos 5:15 - Hate the evil, and love H157 the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

Micah 3:2 - Who hate the good, and love H157 the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

Zechariah 8:17 - And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love H157 no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.

Zechariah 8:19 - Thus 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 tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love H157 the truth and peace.

Zechariah 13:6 - And 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 friends. H157

Malachi 1:2 - I have loved H157 you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved H157 us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved H157 Jacob,

Malachi 2:11 - Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, H157 and hath married the daughter of a strange god.