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Malachi 1:2
Masoretic Text 1524
King James Bible (Oxford 1769)
Hebrew-English Dictionary
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
Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) 1906
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.