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15 lip 2016 · It's overly reported that Greek has several words for love, but Hebrew, as usual, has Greek beat by a landslide. Here are our roughly ten top picks for Hebrew words having to do with love (and follow the links to our online Hebrew dictionary for a closer look at these words): אהב
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”.
Brown, John, 1722-1787: A dictionary of the Holy Bible : containing an historical account of the persons; a geographical account of the places; a literal, critical, and systematical description of other objects ... mentioned in the writings of the Old and New Testaments ...
Hebrews by Brown is valuable reading for the congregation and divinity students alike no work is more fitted for an all-round one-volume commentary. 740pp.
1 lip 2024 · Hebrew actually has four words for love. English has just one word for love – love. We love everything from our family, friends, pet dog Sparky, and Big Macs. We throw that word love around like the words hello, hi, how ya doin’. For most of us, it is just a word to use when you have nothing else to say.
enlightened and affectionate devotion, love to the brotherhood, and charity to all men; and in a style which, though very unequal, indicates in its general structure a familiarity with the classic models of antiquity, and, in occasional expressions, is in the highest degree felicitous and beautiful.
