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Proverbs 17:17

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Masoretic Text 1524

H3605 at all בכל

H6256 times עת

H157 loveth אהב

H7453 A friend הרע

H251 and a brother ואח

H6869 for adversity לצרה

H3205 is born יולד׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

H7453 friend

H157 loveth

H3605 all

H6256 times

and

H251 brother

H3205 born

for

H6869 adversity

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