1 Kings 5:1
And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.
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Lover
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Titus 1:8
But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
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אָהַב
ʼâhab · aw-hab'
2 times translated as this KJV form208 total Strong's occurrences
to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)
Strong's KJV usage: (be-) love(-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.
Strong's first: 1 Kings 5:1Strong's last: Psalms 88:18
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H157
Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
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lover
LOV'ER, noun
1. One who loves; one who has a tender affection, particularly for a female.
Love is blind, and lovers cannot see -
2. A friend; one who regards with kindness.
Your brother and his lover have embraced.
3. One who likes or is pleased with any thing; as a lover of books or of science; a lover of wine; a lover of religion.
Lover and loover. [See Louver.]
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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