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1 Samuel 18:3

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Masoretic Text 1524

H3772 made ויכרת

H3083 Then Jonathan יהונתן

H1732 and David ודוד

H1285 a covenant ברית

H160 באהבתו

H853 אתו

H5315 him as his own soul כנפשׁו׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

Then

H3083 Jonathan

and

H1732 David

H3772 made

H1285 covenant

because

H157 loved

him

his

own

H5315 soul

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