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# חָבַב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2245

**love** — 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

love [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2245/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָבַב: vb. love [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2245/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. love (NH Pi. id.; Arabic حَبَّ be loved; Ethiopic ተሐበበ amore alicujus incendi Di; Aramaic ܚܰܒ kindle, be set on fire, ܚܰܒܶܒ, חַבֵּב love, embrace, חוּבָּא bosom)— Pt. אַף חֹבֵב עַמִּים Dt 33:3 (Di reads עַמּוֹ, cf. 𝔊).

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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[he is\] loving (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 33:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.33.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.33.3/#tree)

אַ֚ף חֹבֵ֣ב עַמִּ֔ים כָּל־קְדֹשָׁ֖יו בְּיָדֶ֑ךָ וְהֵם֙ תֻּכּ֣וּ לְרַגְלֶ֔ךָ יִשָּׂ֖א מִדַּבְּרֹתֶֽיךָ׃

*Word for word:* also \[he.is\].loving peoples all his.holy \[ones\] \[are\].in hand your and they they.were.led to foot your he.will.take from words your

*JPS 1917:* Yea, He loveth the peoples, all His holy ones — they are in Thy hand; and they sit down at Thy feet, receiving of Thy words.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2245.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2245/): 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).