Strong's Hebrew · H157

H157 ʼâhab

אָהַב

aw-hab'

(be-) love(-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.

When ʼâhab is spoken over you, Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against Scripture with people you trust, and return to it in a year.

Definition

to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)

Derivation

or אָהֵב ; a primitive root;

Appears 211 times in Scripture

Genesis 27:4

Then prepare a tasty dish that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.”

Genesis 27:14

So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.

Genesis 24:67

And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.

Genesis 29:30

Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years.

Genesis 25:28

Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.

Genesis 29:18

Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

Genesis 27:9

Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so that I can make them into a tasty dish for your father—the kind he loves.

Genesis 22:2

“Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”

Genesis 29:32

And Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Reuben, for she said, “The LORD has seen my affliction. Surely my husband will love me now.”

When ʼâhab is spoken over you

Words like this one get spoken over people: in a prayer line, in a message from a friend, in a moment nobody planned. The lexicon gives you what ʼâhab means. What God is saying to you through it is yours to record and weigh.

Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against verses like Genesis 27:4 with people you trust, and return to it in a year to see what came of it.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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