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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Lovers

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

23exact KJV occurrences 20Old Testament 3New Testament 6books containing the word 4mapped Strong's IDs 20occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Psalms 38:11

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

2 Timothy 3:4

Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where lovers appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

Psalms 11 verses Jeremiah 55 verses Lamentations 22 verses Ezekiel 66 verses Hosea 66 verses 2 Timothy 32 verses
ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH158
אַהַב

ʼahab · ah'-hab

1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

affection (in a good or a bad sense)

Strong's KJV usage: love(-r).

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Hosea 8:9Strong's last: Hosea 8:9

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Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.

EVERY OCCURRENCE

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6 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

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Hosea 2:5
H157

For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.

Hosea 2:7
H157

And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.

Hosea 2:10
H157

And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.

Hosea 2:12
H157

And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

Hosea 2:13
H157

And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.

Hosea 8:9
H158

For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

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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KJV English usageExact token counts, verse counts, first/last occurrence, and book distribution come from the canonical TWBC PCE KJV index.
Webster 1828Historical English dictionary material is reproduced as dictionary data, not as inspired Scripture or TWBC commentary.
Original Word / Strong'sHebrew, Aramaic, and Greek links attach by exact verse + KJV token position. No global “English word always equals Strong's ID” rule is used.

Curated TWBC teaching will remain a separate editorial layer. Raw source data is never silently rewritten to force a doctrinal conclusion.