Psalms 38:11
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
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Lovers
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2 Timothy 3:4
Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
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6 occurrences in 6 verses.
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אָהַב
ʼâhab · aw-hab'
17 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: Psalms 38:11Strong's last: Hosea 2:13
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ʼahab · ah'-hab
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
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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ʻăgab · aw-gab'
1 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
to breathe after, i.e. to love (sensually)
Strong's KJV usage: dote, lover.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jeremiah 4:30Strong's last: Jeremiah 4:30
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rêaʻ · ray'-ah
1 times translated as this KJV form187 total Strong's occurrences
an associate (more or less close)
Strong's KJV usage: brother, companion, fellow, friend, husband, lover, neighbour, × (an-) other.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jeremiah 3:1Strong's last: Jeremiah 3:1
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H157
She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
H157
I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.
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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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