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# אֹהַב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H159

**amours** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

amours [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/159/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֹ֫הַב: id. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/159/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] id. = loved object, sf. אָהֳבָם Ho 9:10 (= בֹּשֶׁת = בַּעַל v. Hi Now) i.e. the idol worshipped; pl. = amours (carnal sense) Pr 7:18.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: love(s) (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 7:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.18/#tree)

לְכָ֤ה נִרְוֶ֣ה דֹ֭דִים עַד־הַבֹּ֑קֶר נִ֝תְעַלְּסָ֗ה בָּאֳהָבִֽים׃

*Word for word:* come let.us.take.our.fill.of love(s) until the morning let.us.delight.ourselves with love(s)

*JPS 1917:* Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; let us solace ourselves with loves.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/159.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/159/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).