Genesis 27:4
And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
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And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
Read in context →As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Read in context →33 occurrences in 23 verses.
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agápē · ag-ah'-pay
love, i.e. affection or benevolence; specially (plural) a love-feast
Strong's KJV usage: :--(feast of) charity(-ably), dear, love.
Strong's first: Matthew 24:12Strong's last: Revelation 2:4
Open full G26 profile →ʼâhab · aw-hab'
to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)
Strong's KJV usage: (be-) love(-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.
Strong's first: Genesis 27:4Strong's last: Zechariah 8:19
Open full H157 profile →agapáō · ag-ap-ah'-o
to love (in a social or moral sense)
Strong's KJV usage: :--(be-)love(-ed).
Strong's first: Matthew 5:43Strong's last: 3 John 1:1
Open full G25 profile →ʼahăbâh · a-hab-aw
Strong's KJV usage: love.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 1:26Strong's last: Zephaniah 3:17
Open full H160 profile →philéō · fil-eh'-o
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 G25 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 G2309 and G1014, or as G2372 and G3563 respectively; the former being chiefly of the heart and the latter of the head); specially, to kiss (as a mark of tenderness)
Strong's KJV usage: :--kiss, love.
Strong's first: Matthew 6:5Strong's last: Revelation 3:19
Open full G5368 profile →raʻyâh · rah-yaw'
a female associate
Strong's KJV usage: fellow, love.
Strong's first: Song of Solomon 1:9Strong's last: Song of Solomon 6:4
Open full H7474 profile →dôwd · dode
(figuratively) to love; by implication, a love-token, lover, friend; specifically an uncle
Strong's KJV usage: (well-) beloved, father's brother, love, uncle.
Strong's first: Proverbs 7:18Strong's last: Ezekiel 23:17
Open full H1730 profile →philadelphía · fil-ad-el-fee'-ah
fraternal affection
Strong's KJV usage: :--brotherly love (kindness), love of the brethren.
Strong's first: Romans 12:10Strong's last: Hebrews 13:1
Open full G5360 profile →châshaq · khaw-shak'
to cling, i.e. join, (figuratively) to love, delight in; elliptically; to deliver
Strong's KJV usage: have a delight, (have a) desire, fillet, long, set (in) love.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 7:7Strong's last: Isaiah 38:17
Open full H2836 profile →thélō · thel'-o
to determine (as an active option from subjective impulse; whereas G1014 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
Strong's KJV usage: :--desire, be disposed (forward), intend, list, love, mean, please, have rather, (be) will (have, -ling, - ling(-ly)).
Strong's first: Mark 12:38Strong's last: Mark 12:38
Open full G2309 profile →philanthrōpía · fil-an-thro-pee'-ah
fondness of mankind, i.e. benevolence ("philanthropy")
Strong's KJV usage: :--kindness, love towards man.
Strong's first: Titus 3:4Strong's last: Titus 3:4
Open full G5363 profile →ʻegeb · eh'-gheb
love (concretely), i.e. amative words
Strong's KJV usage: much love, very lovely.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 33:31Strong's last: Ezekiel 33:31
Open full H5690 profile →ʻăgâbâh · ag-aw-baw'
love (abstractly), i.e. amorousness
Strong's KJV usage: inordinate love.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 23:11Strong's last: Ezekiel 23:11
Open full H5691 profile →râcham · raw-kham'
to fondle; by implication, to love, especially to compassionate
Strong's KJV usage: have compassion (on, upon), love, (find, have, obtain, shew) mercy(-iful, on, upon), (have) pity, Ruhamah, × surely.
Strong's first: Psalms 18:1Strong's last: Psalms 18:1
Open full H7355 profile →racham · rakh'-am
compassion (in the plural); by extension, the womb (as cherishing the fetus); by implication, a maiden
Strong's KJV usage: bowels, compassion, damsel, tender love, (great, tender) mercy, pity, womb.
Strong's first: Daniel 1:9Strong's last: Daniel 1:9
Open full H7356 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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;
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.
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.
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:
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.
Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs.
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;
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.
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.
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.
Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.
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.
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.
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
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LOVE, verb transitive luv. [Latin libeo, lubeo. See Lief. The sense is probably to be prompt, free, willing, from leaning, advancing, or drawing forward.]
1. In a general sense to be pleased with; to regard with affection, on account of some qualities which excite pleasing sensations or desire of gratification. We love a friend, on account of some qualities which give us pleasure in his society. We love a man who has done us a favor; in which case, gratitude enters into the composition of our affection. We love our parents and our children, on account of their connection with us, and on account of many qualities which please us. We love to retire to a cool shade in summer. We love a warm room in winter. we love to hear an eloquent advocate. The christian loves his Bible. In short, we love whatever gives us pleasure and delight, whether animal or intellectual; and if our hearts are right, we love God above all things, as the sum of all excellence and all the attributes which can communicate happiness to intelligent beings. In other words, the christian loves God with the love of complacency in his attributes, the love of benevolence towards the interest of his kingdom, and the love of gratitude for favors received.
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind -
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Matthew 22:37.
2. To have benevolence or good will for. John 3:16.
LOVE, noun
1. An affection of the mind excited by beauty and worth of any kind, or by the qualities of an object which communicate pleasure, sensual or intellectual. It is opposed to hatred. love between the sexes, is a compound affection, consisting of esteem, benevolence, and animal desire. love is excited by pleasing qualities of any kind, as by kindness, benevolence, charity, and by the qualities which render social intercourse agreeable. In the latter case, love is ardent friendship, or a strong attachment springing from good will and esteem, and the pleasure derived from the company, civilities and kindness of others.
Between certain natural relatives, love seems to be in some cases instinctive. Such is the love of a mother for her child, which manifests itself toward an infant, before any particular qualities in the child are unfolded. This affection is apparently as strong in irrational animals as in human beings.
We speak of the love of amusements, the love of books, the love of money, and the love of whatever contributes to our pleasure or supposed profit.
The love of God is the first duty of man, and this springs from just views of his attributes or excellencies of character, which afford the highest delight to the sanctified heart. Esteem and reverence constitute ingredients in this affection, and a fear of offending him is its inseparable effect.
2. Courtship; chiefly in the phrase, to make love that is, to court; to woo; to solicit union in marriage.
3. Patriotism; the attachment one has to his native land; as the love of country.
4. Benevolence; good will.
God is love 1 John 4:7.
5. The object beloved.
The lover and the love of human kind.
6. A word of endearment.
Trust me, love
7. Picturesque representation of love
Such was his form as painters, when they show their utmost art, on naked loves bestow.
8. Lewdness.
He is not lolling on a lewd love-bed.
9. A thin silk stuff. obsolete
LOVE in idleness, a kind of violet.
Free of love a plant of the genus Cercis.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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