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Introduction (home) Love is both a quality of life that individuals can have and enjoy,
God (New) and it is a special activity that they can express to others. This
The Trinity (New) means that love is both a noun and a verb, something to have and
Who is Jesus? (Revised) also something to do. References to love in both senses of the word
Why Jesus? are very common in many daily conversations and publications.
The Spirit Love is regularly used in advertising copy to attract viewers and to
Spiritual Gifts get individuals to buy various products, so a persons
Basic doctrine regarding sin understanding of love is very strongly conditioned by how it is
The lost displayed and described and received and delivered in various
cultural settings. These cultural definitions and examples of love
God's work of redemption
can create a lot of personal confusion and stress within individuals
(Revised again)
as they seek to learn how to receive love and to share love with
What is Christian faith? (Revised
others. And the challenges of this process can have a lot of severe
again)
consequences for individuals throughout their lives regardless of
The plan of salvation (Revised)
their gender, religious identity, living situation, or education.
Eternal Security
Living By the Spirit (Revised) Definitions for love in the Old Testament
New life in Christ
Discipleship (Revised) In the Old Testament documents of the Bible the Hebrew words
The Christian's Mind ahab or aheb (OT:157 Strongs Greek/Hebrew Definitions) as verbs
Getting into heaven mean to love; like.1 Basically this verb is equivalent to the
The Second Coming of Jesus English to love in the sense of having a strong emotional
(Revised) attachment to and desire either to possess or to be in the presence
Christian morality of the object. First, the word refers to the love a man has for a
woman and a woman for a man. Such love is rooted in sexual
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desire, although as a rule it is desire within the bounds of lawful
The Church (Revised again)
relationships. (As in Isaacs initial relationship with Rebekah in
The Bible (Revised)
Genesis 24:67)2
Hope
Victory But this word (ahab or aheb) may refer to an erotic but legal love
The nature of effective prayer outside of marriage. Such an emotion may be a desire to marry
Economic security and care for the object of that love.3 Such was the case with
Sharing resources Shechem, a Hivite, who was attracted to Dinah, the daughter of
Christmas Jacob, an Israelite. But because he seized her and lay with her and
Bible studies (New) humiliated her (Genesis 34:2) before they were married, her
Special Bible brothers did not respect the arrangement that Jacob had made with
studies (Freely Hamor, the father of Shechem, for the marriage of Dinah to
printable) Shechem. Because they felt that Shechem had raped Dinah, they
Some sermons killed Shechem and Hamor and all of the males in their city and
Good gifts captured and plundered all of the survivors and their possessions.
Time (See Genesis 34:2-29)
Friendship
Fun This word is also used of the love between parents and their
children,4 as in the case of Abrahams relationship with his son
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Isaac. (See Genesis 22:2) It may even refer to the feeling that a
Sex
slave has for his master whom he doesnt want to leave.5 (See
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Exodus 21:5) And this word may refer to the family love
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experienced by a daughter-in-law toward her mother-in-law, as
Peace Ruth felt toward Naomi.6 (See Ruth 4:15) A special use of this word
Encouragement relates to an especially close attachment of friends7, as between
Music Jonathan and David. (See 1 Samuel 18:1) And it is the word that the
Truth Lord used in his command to Moses that each of the Israelites
Wise counsel should love their neighbor as they do themselves. (See Leviticus
Good leadership 19:18) So this word (ahab or aheb) can denote an emotional
Good virtues attachment between individuals that is not sexual in nature.
Love
Character The strong emotional attachment and desire suggested by ahab
Kindness or aheb may also be fixed on objects, circumstances, actions, and
relationships.8
Modesty
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A good blog Another word for love in the Old Testament is ahabah, which is
Good news generally the noun form of the verb ahab (OT:160 Strongs
Good links Greek/Hebrew Definitions). It can refer to several forms of emotional
Guestbook attachment.9 In Genesis 29:20 this word refers to the general
Sitemap love that can be expressed between a man and a woman, as
Jacob felt for Rachel, or Jonathan felt toward his friend David as
cited in 1 Samuel 18:3, or Solomons feeling toward the gods of
the many foreign women in his harem as cited in 1 Kings 11:2. In
Deuteronomy 7:8 and Hosea 3:1 it is translated as a verb in
reference to Gods love. In Psalm 109:4-5 David uses this word to
refer to the general objective of his emotions in the course of his
rule as the king of Israel. The writer of the book of Ecclesiastes,
who is assumed to be Solomon the son of David, uses the word in
Ecc. 9:1 & 6 to refer in general to an object of affection in a
persons life. Solomon uses this word in reference to the strong
emotion of love in the Song of Solomon in chapter 5 verse 8 and
chapter 8 verses 6 and 7.
According to Vine, Christian love has God for its primary object,
and expresses itself first of all in implicit obedience to His
commandments.13 Jesus made this clear in his final teachings to
his disciples, as reported in John 14:15, 21, and 23, before he was
arrested and crucified.
Vine further explains the different meanings for these two Greek
verbs that are translated with the word love in this comment: to
love (phileo) life, from an undue desire to preserve it, forgetful of
the real object of living, meets with the Lords reproof, John 12:25.
On the contrary, to love life (agapao) as used in 1 Peter 3:10, is
to consult the true interests of living. Here the word phileo would
be quite inappropriate.18
is patient
and kind
does not envy
or boast
is not arrogant
or rude
does not insist on its own way
is not irritable
or resentful
does not rejoice at wrongdoing
but rejoices with the truth
bears all things
believes all things
hopes all things
endures all things
never ends.
But in the documents of the New Testament this word love that is
translated from the Greek words agapao and agape seems to
denote a Christian quality of emotion that is distinctively unselfish
and subservient, particularly in regard to ones relationship with
God, but also in regard to relationships with other individuals as
well as other Christians. And the Greek word phileo, which is also
translated into the word love, means tender affection, according
to Vine.21 So I assume that the level of emotion that is being
expressed by this word is somewhat different or less than that of a
strong emotional attachment that is being expressed by the
Hebrew words ahab or aheb, and ahabah that are translated as
love in the Old Testament.
Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version
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