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Song of Solomon 3:1

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Masoretic Text 1524

H5921 on על

H4904 my bed משׁכבי

H3915 By night בלילות

H1245 I sought בקשׁתי

H853 את

H157 שׁאהבה

H5315 him whom my soul נפשׁי

H1245 I sought בקשׁתיו

H3808 him not ולא

H4672 him but I found מצאתיו׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

H3915 night

H5921 on

H4904 bed

H1245 sought

him

whom

H5315 soul

H7945 loveth

H1245 sought

him

but

H4672 found

him

H3808 not

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