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Love

21Greek/Hebrew entries
134stored occurrences
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Priority Greek/Hebrew Meanings

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Greek G25 agapáō

Original: ἀγαπάω

Meaning:
perhaps from (much) (or compare עֲגַב); to love (in a social or moral sense):--(be-)love(-ed). Compare φιλέω.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: to love (in a social or moral sense):--(be-)love(-ed). Compare φιλέω.

Greek G5368 philéō

Original: φιλέω

Meaning:
from φίλος; to be a friend to (fond of (an individual or an object)), i.e. have affection for (denoting personal attachment, as a matter of sentiment or feeling; while ἀγαπάω is wider, embracing especially the judgment and the deliberate assent of the will as a matter of principle, duty and propriety: the two thus stand related very much as θέλω and βούλομαι, or as θυμός and νοῦς respectively; the former being chiefly of the heart and the latter of the head); specially, to kiss (as a mark of tenderness):--kiss, love.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: specially, to kiss (as a mark of tenderness):--kiss, love.

Hebrew H157 ʼâhab

Original: אָהַב

Meaning:
or אָהֵב ; a primitive root; to have affection for (sexually or otherwise); (be-) love(-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: (be-) love(-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.

Greek G26 agape

Original: agapē

Meaning:
self-giving covenant love; the word often used for God's love and the love believers are called to walk in.

Notes:
Starter glossary. Import a full Strong's/interlinear dataset later for verse-level mapping.

Hebrew H160 ahavah

Original: ʼahăbâ

Meaning:
love, affection, covenantal love.

Notes:
Expanded starter glossary.

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Hebrew H2617 hesed

Original: ḥesed

Meaning:
steadfast love, covenant loyalty, mercy, kindness.

Greek G5384 phílos

Original: φίλος

Meaning:
properly, dear, i.e. a friend; actively, fond, i.e. friendly (still as a noun, an associate, neighbor, etc.):--friend.

Greek G2309 thélō

Original: θέλω

Meaning:
apparently strengthened from the alternate form of αἱρέομαι; to determine (as an active option from subjective impulse; whereas βούλομαι properly denotes rather a passive acquiescence in objective considerations), i.e. choose or prefer (literally or figuratively); by implication, to wish, i.e. be inclined to (sometimes adverbially, gladly); impersonally for the future tense, to be about to; by Hebraism, to delight in:--desire, be disposed (forward), intend, list, love, mean, please, have rather, (be) will (have, -ling, - ling(-ly)).

Greek G3404 miséō

Original: μισέω

Meaning:
from a primary (hatred); to detest (especially to persecute); by extension, to love less:--hate(-ful).

Greek G5360 philadelphía

Original: φιλαδελφία

Meaning:
from φιλάδελφος; fraternal affection:--brotherly love (kindness), love of the brethren.

Greek G5363 philanthrōpía

Original: φιλανθρωπία

Meaning:
from the same as φιλανθρώπως; fondness of mankind, i.e. benevolence ("philanthropy"):--kindness, love towards man.

Hebrew H158 ʼahab

Original: אַהַב

Meaning:
from אָהַב; affection (in a good or a bad sense); love(-r).

Hebrew H159 ʼôhab

Original: אֹהַב

Meaning:
from אָדַשׁ; meaning the same as אַהַב; {affection (in a good or a bad sense)}; love.

Hebrew H1730 dôwd

Original: דּוֹד

Meaning:
or (shortened) דֹּד; from an unused root meaning properly, to boil, i.e.; (figuratively) to love; by implication, a love-token, lover, friend; specifically an uncle; (well-) beloved, father's brother, love, uncle.

Hebrew H2245 châbab

Original: חָבַב

Meaning:
a primitive root (compare חָבָא, חָבָה); properly, to hide (as in the bosom), i.e. to cherish (with affection); love.

Hebrew H2836 châshaq

Original: חָשַׁק

Meaning:
a primitive root; also interchangeable for חָשַׂךְ; to cling, i.e. join, (figuratively) to love, delight in; elliptically; to deliver; have a delight, (have a) desire, fillet, long, set (in) love.

Hebrew H5690 ʻegeb

Original: עֶגֶב

Meaning:
from עֲגַב; love (concretely), i.e. amative words; much love, very lovely.

Hebrew H5691 ʻăgâbâh

Original: עֲגָבָה

Meaning:
from עֲגַב; love (abstractly), i.e. amorousness; inordinate love.

Hebrew H7355 râcham

Original: רָחַם

Meaning:
a primitive root; to fondle; by implication, to love, especially to compassionate; have compassion (on, upon), love, (find, have, obtain, shew) mercy(-iful, on, upon), (have) pity, Ruhamah, [idiom] surely.

Hebrew H7356 racham

Original: רַחַם

Meaning:
from רָחַם; compassion (in the plural); by extension, the womb (as cherishing the fetus); by implication, a maiden; bowels, compassion, damsel, tender love, (great, tender) mercy, pity, womb.

Hebrew H7474 raʻyâh

Original: רַעְיָה

Meaning:
feminine of רֵעַ; a female associate; fellow, love.

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Genesis 27:4 And make me savory meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die. Open
Genesis 29:20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. Open
Genesis 29:32 And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me. Open
Exodus 20:6 And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Open
Exodus 21:5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: Open
Leviticus 19:18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am the LORD. Open
Leviticus 19:34 But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. Open
Deuteronomy 5:10 And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments. Open
Deuteronomy 6:5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. Open
Deuteronomy 7:7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: Open
Deuteronomy 7:9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; Open
Deuteronomy 7:13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. Open
Deuteronomy 10:12 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, Open
Deuteronomy 10:15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day. Open
Deuteronomy 10:19 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. Open
Deuteronomy 11:1 Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway. Open
Deuteronomy 11:13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, Open
Deuteronomy 11:22 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him; Open
Deuteronomy 13:3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Open
Deuteronomy 19:9 If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three: Open
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Deuteronomy 30:6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. Open
Deuteronomy 30:16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. Open
Deuteronomy 30:20 That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them. Open
Joshua 22:5 But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul. Open
Joshua 23:11 Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God. Open
Judges 5:31 So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years. Open
Judges 16:15 And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth. Open
1 Samuel 18:22 And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king's son in law. Open
2 Samuel 1:26 I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. Open
2 Samuel 13:4 And he said unto him, Why art thou, being the king's son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister. Open
2 Samuel 13:15 Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone. Open
1 Kings 11:2 Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love. Open
2 Chronicles 19:2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD. Open
Nehemiah 1:5 And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments: Open
Psalm 4:2 O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah. Open
Psalm 5:11 But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee. Open
Psalm 18:1 I will love thee, O LORD, my strength. Open
Psalm 31:23 O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer. Open
Psalm 40:16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified. Open
Psalm 69:36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein. Open
Psalm 70:4 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified. Open
Psalm 91:14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. Open
Psalm 97:10 Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked. Open
Psalm 109:4 For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer. Open
Psalm 109:5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love. Open
Psalm 116:1 I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. Open
Psalm 119:97 O how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day. Open
Psalm 119:113 I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love. Open
Psalm 119:119 Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies. Open
Psalm 119:127 Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold. Open
Psalm 119:132 Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name. Open
Psalm 119:159 Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness. Open
Psalm 119:163 I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love. Open
Psalm 119:165 Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them. Open
Psalm 119:167 My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly. Open
Psalm 122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. Open
Psalm 145:20 The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy. Open
Proverbs 1:22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? Open
Proverbs 4:6 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. Open
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. Open
Proverbs 7:18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. Open
Proverbs 8:17 I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me. Open
Proverbs 8:21 That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures. Open
Proverbs 8:36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death. Open
Proverbs 9:8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. Open
Proverbs 10:12 Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. Open
Proverbs 15:17 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. Open
Proverbs 16:13 Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right. Open
Proverbs 17:9 He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends. Open
Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. Open
Proverbs 20:13 Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread. Open
Proverbs 27:5 Open rebuke is better than secret love. Open
Ecclesiastes 3:8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. Open
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. Open
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. Open
Song of Solomon 1:2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine. Open
Song of Solomon 1:3 Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee. Open
Song of Solomon 1:4 Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee. Open
Song of Solomon 1:9 I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots. Open
Song of Solomon 1:15 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes. Open
Song of Solomon 2:2 As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. Open
Song of Solomon 2:4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. Open
Song of Solomon 2:5 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. Open
Song of Solomon 2:7 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please. Open
Song of Solomon 2:10 My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. Open
Song of Solomon 2:13 The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. Open
Song of Solomon 3:5 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please. Open
Song of Solomon 3:10 He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem. Open
Song of Solomon 4:1 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. Open
Song of Solomon 4:7 Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee. Open
Song of Solomon 4:10 How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices! Open
Song of Solomon 5:2 I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night. Open
Song of Solomon 5:8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love. Open
Song of Solomon 6:4 Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners. Open
Song of Solomon 7:6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights! Open
Song of Solomon 8:4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please. Open
Song of Solomon 8:6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. Open
Song of Solomon 8:7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. Open
Isaiah 38:17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. Open
Isaiah 56:6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; Open
Isaiah 61:8 For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. Open
Isaiah 63:9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old. Open
Isaiah 66:10 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her: Open
Jeremiah 2:2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. Open
Jeremiah 2:33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways. Open
Jeremiah 5:31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof? Open
Jeremiah 31:3 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. Open
Ezekiel 16:8 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine. Open
Ezekiel 23:11 And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms. Open
Ezekiel 23:17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them. Open
Ezekiel 33:31 And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness. Open
Daniel 1:9 Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs. Open
Daniel 9:4 And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments; Open
Hosea 3:1 Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine. Open
Hosea 4:18 Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye. Open
Hosea 9:15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters. Open
Hosea 11:4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them. Open
Hosea 14:4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. Open
Amos 5:15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. Open
Micah 3:2 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; Open
Micah 6:8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Open
Zephaniah 3:17 The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing. Open
Zechariah 8:17 And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD. Open
Zechariah 8:19 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace. Open
Matthew 5:43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. Open
Matthew 5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; Open
Matthew 5:46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? Open
Matthew 6:5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. Open
Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Open
Matthew 19:19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Open
Matthew 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. Open
Matthew 22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Open
Matthew 23:6 And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, Open
Matthew 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. Open

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