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Genesis 37:4

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Masoretic Text 1524

H7200 saw ויראו

H251 And when his brethren אחיו

H3588 that כי

H853 אתו

H157 loved אהב

H1 their father אביהם

H3605 מכל

H251 his brethren אחיו

H8130 they hated וישׂנאו

H853 אתו

H3808 not ולא

H3201 him and could יכלו

H1696 speak דברו

H7965 peaceably לשׁלם׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

And

when

his

H251 brethren

H7200 saw

H3588 that

their

H1 father

H157 loved

him

than

H4480 all

his

H251 brethren

they

H8130 hated

him

and

H3201 could

H3808 not

H1696 speak

H7965 peaceably

unto

him

Hebrew-English Dictionary

Strongs: H157

Hebrew: אָהַב

Transliteration: ʼâhab

Pronunciation: aw-hab'

Part of Speech: Verb

Bible Usage: (be-) love ({-d} {-ly} {-r}) {like} friend.

Definition:

to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)

1. to love

a. (Qal)

1. human love for another, includes family, and sexual

2. human appetite for objects such as food, drink, sleep, wisdom

3. human love for or to God

4. act of being a friend 1a

b. lover (participle) 1a

c. friend (participle)

1. God's love toward man 1a

d. to individual men 1a

e. to people Israel 1a

f. to righteousness

g. (Niphal)

1. lovely (participle)

2. loveable (participle)

h. (Piel)

1. friends

2. lovers (fig. of adulterers)

2. to like

The Brown-Driver-Briggs
Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) 1906