Limitless Word
אָהַבʼâhab/aw-hab'/
HebrewH157208 occurrences (KJV)

to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)

KJV renders it: (be-) love(-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.

Where it appears(showing the first 195 of 208)

  • Gen 22:2He said, “Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.”
  • Gen 24:67Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
  • Gen 25:28Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.
  • Gen 27:4Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die.”
  • Gen 27:9Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good young goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.
  • Gen 27:14He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.
  • Gen 29:18Jacob loved Rachel. He said, “I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.”
  • Gen 29:30He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
  • Gen 29:32Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me.”
  • Gen 34:3His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.
  • Gen 37:3Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.
  • Gen 37:4His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.
  • Gen 44:20We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.’
  • Exod 20:6and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
  • Exod 21:5But if the servant shall plainly say, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;’
  • Lev 19:18“‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.
  • Lev 19:34The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.
  • Deut 4:37Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
  • Deut 5:10and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
  • Deut 6:5You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.
  • Deut 7:9Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
  • Deut 7:13He will love you, bless you, multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.
  • Deut 10:12Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
  • Deut 10:15Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.
  • Deut 10:18He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.
  • Deut 10:19Therefore love the foreigner; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
  • Deut 11:1Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.
  • Deut 11:13It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
  • Deut 11:22For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him;
  • Deut 13:3you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
  • Deut 15:16It shall be, if he tells you, “I will not go out from you,” because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;
  • Deut 19:9if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, besides these three.
  • Deut 21:15If a man has two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated;
  • Deut 21:16then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not give the son of the beloved the rights of the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn;
  • Deut 23:5Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam; but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.
  • Deut 30:6Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.
  • Deut 30:16For I command you today to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.
  • Deut 30:20to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days; that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
  • Josh 22:5Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
  • Josh 23:11Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God.
  • Judg 5:31“So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.
  • Judg 14:16Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, “You just hate me, and don’t love me. You’ve told a riddle to the children of my people, and haven’t told it to me.” He said to her, “Behold, I haven’t told my father or my mother, so why should I tell you?”
  • Judg 16:4It came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
  • Judg 16:15She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”
  • Ruth 4:15He shall be to you a restorer of life, and sustain you in your old age, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”
  • 1 Sam 1:5but to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.
  • 1 Sam 16:21David came to Saul, and stood before him. He loved him greatly; and he became his armor bearer.
  • 1 Sam 18:1When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
  • 1 Sam 18:16But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them.
  • 1 Sam 18:20Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
  • 1 Sam 18:22Saul commanded his servants, “Talk with David secretly, and say, ‘Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore be the king’s son-in-law.’”
  • 1 Sam 18:28Saul saw and knew that Yahweh was with David; and Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him.
  • 1 Sam 20:17Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
  • 2 Sam 1:23Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives. In their death, they were not divided. They were swifter than eagles. They were stronger than lions.
  • 2 Sam 12:24David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her. She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Yahweh loved him;
  • 2 Sam 13:1After this, Absalom the son of David had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.
  • 2 Sam 13:4He said to him, “Why, son of the king, are you so sad from day to day? Won’t you tell me?” Amnon said to him, “I love Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”
  • 2 Sam 13:15Then Amnon hated her with exceedingly great hatred; for the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. Amnon said to her, “Arise, be gone!”
  • 2 Sam 19:6in that you love those who hate you, and hate those who love you. For you have declared today, that princes and servants are nothing to you. For today I perceive that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died today, then it would have pleased you well.
  • 1 Kgs 3:3Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father; except that he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
  • 1 Kgs 5:1Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the place of his father, and Hiram had always loved David.
  • 1 Kgs 11:1Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;
  • 1 Kgs 11:2of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon joined to these in love.
  • 2 Chr 11:21Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines; for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
  • 2 Chr 19:2Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh? Because of this, wrath is on you from before Yahweh.
  • 2 Chr 20:7Didn’t you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the offspring of Abraham your friend forever?
  • 2 Chr 26:10He built towers in the wilderness, and dug out many cisterns, for he had much livestock; in the lowland also, and in the plain. He had farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields, for he loved farming.
  • Neh 1:5and said, “I beg you, Yahweh, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments:
  • Neh 13:26Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.
  • Esth 2:17The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she obtained favor and kindness in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.
  • Esth 5:10Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home. There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife.
  • Esth 5:14Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.
  • Esth 6:13Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him.”
  • Job 19:19All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
  • Ps 4:2You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.
  • Ps 5:11But let all those who take refuge in you rejoice, Let them always shout for joy, because you defend them. Let them also who love your name be joyful in you.
  • Ps 11:5Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.
  • Ps 11:7For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.
  • Ps 26:8Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.
  • Ps 31:23Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.
  • Ps 33:5He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of Yahweh.
  • Ps 34:12Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?
  • Ps 37:28For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
  • Ps 38:11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.
  • Ps 40:16Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your salvation say continually, “Let Yahweh be exalted!”
  • Ps 45:7You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
  • Ps 47:4He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
  • Ps 52:3You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.
  • Ps 52:4You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.
  • Ps 69:36The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein.
  • Ps 70:4Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let those who love your salvation continually say, “Let God be exalted!”
  • Ps 78:68But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.
  • Ps 87:2Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
  • Ps 88:18You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.
  • Ps 97:10You who love Yahweh, hate evil. He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
  • Ps 99:4The King’s strength also loves justice. You do establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.
  • Ps 109:17Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far from him.
  • Ps 116:1I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice, and my cries for mercy.
  • Ps 119:47I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.
  • Ps 119:48I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes. ZAYIN
  • Ps 119:97How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
  • Ps 119:113I hate double-minded men, but I love your law.
  • Ps 119:119You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross. Therefore I love your testimonies.
  • Ps 119:127Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.
  • Ps 119:132Turn to me, and have mercy on me, as you always do to those who love your name.
  • Ps 119:140Your promises have been thoroughly tested, and your servant loves them.
  • Ps 119:159Consider how I love your precepts. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your loving kindness.
  • Ps 119:163I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.
  • Ps 119:165Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.
  • Ps 119:167My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly.
  • Ps 122:6Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper.
  • Ps 145:20Yahweh preserves all those who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.
  • Ps 146:8Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.
  • Prov 1:22“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
  • Prov 3:12for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.
  • Prov 4:6Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.
  • Prov 8:17I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
  • Prov 8:21That I may give wealth to those who love me. I fill their treasuries.
  • Prov 8:36But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”
  • Prov 9:8Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise man, and he will love you.
  • Prov 12:1Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
  • Prov 13:24One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.
  • Prov 14:20The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends.
  • Prov 15:9The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but he loves him who follows after righteousness.
  • Prov 15:12A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.
  • Prov 16:13Righteous lips are the delight of kings. They value one who speaks the truth.
  • Prov 17:17A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.
  • Prov 17:19He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.
  • Prov 18:21Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.
  • Prov 18:24A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
  • Prov 19:8He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding shall find good.
  • Prov 20:13Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
  • Prov 21:17He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich.
  • Prov 22:11He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king’s friend.
  • Prov 27:6Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.
  • Prov 29:3Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
  • Eccl 3:8a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
  • Eccl 5:10He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.
  • Eccl 9:9Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.
  • Song 1:3Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured out, therefore the virgins love you.
  • Song 1:4Take me away with you. Let us hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! They are right to love you.
  • Song 1:7Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; For why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions?
  • Song 3:1By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.
  • Song 3:2I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.
  • Song 3:3The watchmen who go about the city found me; “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”
  • Song 3:4I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me.
  • Isa 1:23Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don’t judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
  • Isa 41:8“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend,
  • Isa 43:4Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you; therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life.
  • Isa 48:14“Assemble yourselves, all of you, and hear; who among them has declared these things? He whom Yahweh loves will do what he likes to Babylon, and his arm will be against the Chaldeans.
  • Isa 56:6Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh, to serve him, and to love Yahweh’s name, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds fast my covenant;
  • Isa 56:10His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
  • Isa 57:8You have set up your memorial behind the doors and the posts; for you have exposed yourself to someone besides me, and have gone up; you have enlarged your bed, and made you a covenant with them. You loved what you saw on their bed.
  • Isa 61:8“For I, Yahweh, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
  • Isa 66:10“Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her. Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her;
  • Jer 2:25“Keep your feet from being bare, and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers, and I will go after them.’
  • Jer 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?
  • Jer 8:2and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the army of the sky, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for dung on the surface of the earth.
  • Jer 14:10Yahweh says to this people, “Even so they have loved to wander. They have not restrained their feet. Therefore Yahweh does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish them for their sins.”
  • Jer 20:4For Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself, and to all your friends; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall see it; and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall kill them with the sword.
  • Jer 20:6You, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house shall go into captivity; and you shall come to Babylon, and there you shall die, and there you shall be buried, you, and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely.’”
  • Jer 22:20“Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers are destroyed.
  • Jer 22:22The wind shall feed all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity. Surely then you will be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.
  • Jer 30:14All your lovers have forgotten you. They don’t seek you: for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased.
  • Jer 31:3Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.
  • Lam 1:2She weeps bitterly in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has no one to comfort her: All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they have become her enemies.
  • Lam 1:19“I called for my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, while they sought food for themselves to refresh their souls.
  • Ezek 16:33People give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution.
  • Ezek 16:36‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, and for the blood of your children, that you gave to them;
  • Ezek 16:37therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved, with all those who you have hated; I will even gather them against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
  • Ezek 23:5“Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine. She doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,
  • Ezek 23:9“Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.
  • Ezek 23:22“Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side:
  • Dan 9:4I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made confession, and said, Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,
  • Hos 2:5For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’
  • Hos 2:7She will follow after her lovers, but she won’t overtake them; and she will seek them, but won’t find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.’
  • Hos 2:10Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand.
  • Hos 2:12I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest,’ and the animals of the field shall eat them.
  • Hos 2:13I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me,” says Yahweh.
  • Hos 3:1Yahweh said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.”
  • Hos 4:18Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.
  • Hos 9:1Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.
  • Hos 9:10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.
  • Hos 10:11Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; so I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck. I will set a rider on Ephraim. Judah will plow. Jacob will break his clods.
  • Hos 11:1“When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
  • Hos 12:7A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
  • Hos 14:4“I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.
  • Amos 4:5offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them: for this pleases you, you children of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh.
  • Amos 5:15Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
  • Mic 3:2You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;
  • Zech 8:17and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate,” says Yahweh.
  • Zech 8:19Yahweh of Armies says: “The fasts of the fourth fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.”
  • Zech 13:6One will say to him, ‘What are these wounds between your arms?’ Then he will answer, ‘Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.’
  • Mal 1:2“I have loved you,” says Yahweh. Yet you say, “How have you loved us?” “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says Yahweh, “Yet I loved Jacob;
  • Mal 2:11Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.