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אַהֲבָה. ah-ha-vah H160 love (human love, God’s love) from the root אָהַב H157 love (above) Deut. 7:8 But because loved H160 you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
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 sty 2009 · The Hebrew Bible uses more words to ex press the feeling of love. Sometimes the. words used have different meanings and they can cover a great semantic a rea: love, mercy, kindness, and...
New Perspectives in Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew, 2021. Unlike in Modern Hebrew (MH), proper names in Biblical Hebrew (BH) appear freely in the annex of constructs, e.g., בְנֵֽי־יַעֲקֹ֜ב ‘the sons of Jacob’ (Gen. 34.13).
Let us use the English translation of Deut 6:5 as an example: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart.” Without the vowels, we are left with a series of consonants, much like the ancient written form of Hebrew: Lv th Lrd yr Gd wth ll yr hrt.
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