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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?
1 lip 2024 · First, you have the most common word for love which is ahav or ahavah in a feminine form. It is general overall, generic love. It can be used for loving anything or anyone from Grandma to your pet dog Sparky. It is a non-romantic, non-erotic, or sexual love. It is the love expressed between the Biblical Jonathan and David.
20 lip 2017 · But what does that mean? Ahavah [00:29-01:27] “Love” is a common word in ancient Hebrew 1, and it most basically refers to the affection or care one person shows another.
11 lis 2023 · His most basic definition of ahavah is that "Love is the expansion of the soul and its joy in something that pleases it, desiring it more than anything else. It opens the chambers of the heart, and the vital spirits within it will run alongside all the parts of the body."
One root is hav, which means to offer or to give. The other root is ahav, which means to nurture or to devote completely to another. (Chabad) This nullifies the idea that one can helplessly fall in and out of love, since it reveals that love is not an emotion but an action.
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15 paź 2017 · To LOVE: ahav. verb. (Strong's 157). 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”.
