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Hosea 4:18

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Masoretic Text 1524

H5493 is sour סר

H5435 Their drink סבאם

H2181 they have committed whoredom continually הזנה

H2181 הזנו

H157 do love אהבו

H157 הבו

H7036 with shame קלון

H4043 her rulers מגניה׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

Their

H5435 drink

H5493 sour

they

have

committed

whoredom

H2181 continually

her

H4043 rulers

with

H7036 shame

H157 love

H3051 Give

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