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28 lip 2023 · The Hebrew word for love is ahavah, which is rooted in the more molecular word hav,1 which means to give, revealing that, according to Judaism, giving is at the root of love. What does this etymological insight teach us both about the function of love and about how love functions?
15 paź 2017 · Root: אהב (aleph-hey-bet). LOVE is a beautiful word that is expressed in every language. Unlike New Testament Greek which has various words expressing different aspects of “love”, (erotic, companionship, divine), Hebrew has only the word ahav/ahava, which has been translated into English as “love”.
The most common love word we read in the Tanakh is the verb ahev (אָהַב), from which also comes the feminine noun ahava (אַהֲבָה), meaning love, and the masculine noun ahav (אַ֫הַב), meaning lover or loving, as in a loving doe (see Proverbs 5:19).
17 kwi 2017 · ‘Love’ in Greek and Hebrew sounds similar: ahava and agápē (the consonants B or V and P were historically mixed up in hundreds of cases in countries that were under Greek occupation. In some languages, such as Hebrew, cross-phonetic difficulties are also evident with ‘G,’ ‘H’ and ‘R’ consonants).
Love in Hebrew is "Ahava" , which is made up of three basic Hebrew letters, . These three letters actually are broken down into two parts: a two letter base or root, , and the first letter, , which is a modifier. The meaning of the two letter base, , is "to give".
Years passed, ahavah waited like any Eternal Truth to be seen, experienced and understood. Several years ago Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz wrote in Parabola about love. He called it the most used, misused and abused word and suggested that we’d better leave it alone and study compassion instead.
20 lip 2017 · Explore the ways the biblical authors used the word love, and how they depicted God as the ultimate source and goal of all human love.
