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Hosea 11:1

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Masoretic Text 1524

H3588 When כי

H5288 was a child נער

H3478 Israel ישׂראל

H157 then I loved ואהבהו

H4714 וממצרים

H7121 him and called קראתי

H1121 my son לבני׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

H3588 When

H3478 Israel

was

H5288 child

then

H157 loved

him

and

H7121 called

H1121 son

out

H4480 Egypt

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