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'ahab

'ahab {aw-hab'} or 'aheb {aw-habe'}
Hebrew: verb

Possible Definitions:
1) to love
1a) (Qal)
1) human love for another, includes familial, sexual
2) human appetite for objects such as food, drink, sleep, wisdom
3) human love for/to God
4) act of being a friend
a) lover (participle)
b) friend (participle)
5) God's love toward man
a) to individual men
b) to people Israel
c) to righteousness
1b) (Niph)
1) lovely (participle)
2) loveable (participle)
1c) (Piel)
1) friends
2) lovers (figurative of adulterers)
2) to like

'ahab {aw-hab'} or 'aheb {aw-habe'}

Hebrew: verb

a primitive root;

Strong's Number 157

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament - 29