Limitless Word
עֲגַבʻăgab/aw-gab'/
HebrewH56897 occurrences (KJV)

to breathe after, i.e. to love (sensually)

KJV renders it: dote, lover.

Where it appears

  • Jer 4:30You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck yourself with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with makeup, you make yourself beautiful in vain. Your lovers despise you. They seek your life.
  • Ezek 23:5“Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine. She doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,
  • Ezek 23:7She gave herself as a prostitute to them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them. She defiled herself with the idols of whoever she lusted after.
  • Ezek 23:9“Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.
  • Ezek 23:12She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and rulers, her neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.
  • Ezek 23:16As soon as she saw them she lusted after them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
  • Ezek 23:20She lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

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