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Proverbs 18:21

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Masoretic Text 1524

H4194 Death מות

H2416 and life וחיים

H3027 are in the power ביד

H3956 of the tongue לשׁון

H157 and they that love ואהביה

H398 it shall eat יאכל

H6529 the fruit פריה׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

H4194 Death

and

H2416 life

are

the

H3027 power

the

H3956 tongue

and

they

that

H157 love

shall

H398 eat

the

H6529 fruit

thereof

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