Word Study · Strong's H158 · Hebrew
אַהַב
ahab
ah'-hab
Strong's 1890 spelling: ʼahab
“affection (in a good or a bad sense)”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
affection (in a good or a bad sense)
Rendered in the KJV as
love(-r).
- 2occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 2 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 2inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 2 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 2
- אֲהָבִ֗ים1
- אֲהָבִֽים1
How it is rendered · 2
- lovers1
- loves1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 1
- noun · masculine plural2
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- HNcmpa · 2
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