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Proverbs 15:9

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Masoretic Text 1524

H8441 is an abomination תועבת

H3068 unto the LORD יהוה

H1870 The way דרך

H7563 of the wicked רשׁע

H7291 him that followeth after ומרדף

H6666 righteousness צדקה

H157 but he loveth יאהב׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

The

H1870 way

the

H7563 wicked

H8441 abomination

unto

the

H3068 LORD

but

H157 loveth

him

that

followeth

H7291 after

H6666 righteousness

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:

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