Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H163
אַהֲוָא
Ahavaa-hav-aw'
Ahava
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼAhăvâʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H163is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H163
Ahava, a river of Babylonia
The King James renders it: Ahava.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Ahava is rendered "Ahava". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Three of the uses stand in Ezra, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 8:15Now I assembled these exiles at the canal that flows to Ahava, and we camped there three days. And when I searched among the people and priests, I found no Levites there.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Now I assembled these exiles at the canal that flows to Ahava, and we camped there three days. And when I searched among the people and priests, I found no Levites there.
Ezra 8:15אַהֲוָ֔א
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's three uses are in Ezra.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Ahava3
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אַהֲבָה | ahabah | love | Uses38 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אַהֲוָ֔א2
- אַֽהֲוָ֗א1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)3HNpl
Ezra
three uses
Now I assembled these exiles at the canal that flows to Ahava, and we camped there three days. And when I searched among the people and priests, I found no Levites there.
- אַהֲוָ֔אʾahava'proper noun (a name)tagged: Ahava
And there by the Ahava Canal I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask Him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions.
- אַהֲוָ֔אʾahava'proper noun (a name)tagged: Ahava
On the twelfth day of the first month we set out from the Ahava Canal to go to Jerusalem, and the hand of our God was upon us to protect us from the hands of the enemies and bandits along the way.
- אַֽהֲוָ֗אʾahava'proper noun (a name)tagged: Ahava
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.