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Strong's numbers

אַהֲבָה H160

ʼahăbâh

a-hab-aw

feminine of אַהַב and meaning the same; {affection (in a good or a bad sense)}; love.

Brown–Driver–Briggs

אַהֲבָה n.f. love

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.


37 occurrences

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • Psalms 109:5
    And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
  • Proverbs 5:19
    Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
  • Proverbs 10:12
    Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
  • Proverbs 15:17
    Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
  • Proverbs 17:9
    He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
  • Proverbs 27:5
    Open rebuke is better than secret love.
  • Ecclesiastes 9:1
    For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.
  • Ecclesiastes 9:6
    Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
  • Song of Solomon 2:4
    He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.
  • Song of Solomon 2:5
    Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.