806 occurrences in 13 translations

'Love' in the Bible

"Your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown me your gracious love in how you have dealt with me by keeping me alive. I cannot escape to the hills, because I'm afraid the disaster will overtake me, and I'll die.

KindnessPeople's Inability To SaveEscaping To MountainsPossibility Of DeathGod Showed His LovingkindnessUnable To Save

And when God sent me wandering from my father's house, I said to her, Let this be the sign of your love for me; wherever we go, say of me, He is my brother.

LoyaltyTentsWanderers

“Take your son,” He said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.”

CalvaryAbrahamAtonement, Types OfLove, And The WorldSuffering, Of Jesus ChristWorship, Acceptable AttitudesWorship, Places OfThe Only ChildSacrificing The FirstbornOnly Child Of PeopleThose Who Loved

That's when he prayed, "LORD God of my master Abraham, help me to succeed today. Please show your gracious love to my master Abraham.

God Of The FathersGrace, In OtAdventureSuccess Through GodguidanceHaving A Good Day

May it be that the young woman to whom I ask, "Please, lower your jug so that I may drink,' responds, "Have a drink, and I'll water your camels as well.' May she be the one whom you have chosen for your servant Isaac. This is how I'll know that you have shown your gracious love to my master."

DrinksWater ContainersRequesting FoodMan Providing WaterSeeking A SignGod Appointing OthersGiving In Marriage

"Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hasn't held back his gracious love and faithfulness from my master! The LORD has led me to the house of my master's relatives!"

JourneyKindnessGod Has GuidedBless The Lord!God Showed His Lovingkindness

So now, if you wish to show gracious love and truth toward my master, tell me so. But if not, tell me, so that I may go elsewhere."

Changing DirectionGiving InformationTurning To Right And Left

Now Isaac's love was for Esau, because Esau's meat was greatly to his taste: but Rebekah had more love for Jacob.

Fathers, Examples OfPrejudiceTastePartialityThose Who LovedMan's FavouriteDeergames

And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.

TasteRequesting FoodSavourinessBefore DeathLoving Other ThingsPeople Blessing

It was clear to Esau that his father had no love for the women of Canaan,

Seeing SituationsTroubling Individualshumor

Then Jacob took Rachel as his wife, and his love for her was greater than his love for Leah; and he went on working for Laban for another seven years.

Marriage, Customs ConcerningMonogamyPolygamyPartialityMarital SexSeven YearsMarital Sex BetweenMen And Women Who LovedServing IndividualsMan's Favourite

And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.

PregnancyGod Seeing Their AfflictionGod Sending His SonI Am SufferingMen And Women Who LovedPeople With Apt Names

Now at the time of wheat harvest Reuben [the eldest child] went and found some mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

Wheat

But Leah said to her, Is it a small thing that you have taken my husband from me? and now would you take my son's love-fruits? Then Rachel said, You may have him tonight in exchange for your son's love-fruits.

Marital SexMarital Sex BetweenTaking Other PeopleUnimportant Things

In the evening, when Jacob came in from the field, Leah went out to him and said, Tonight you are to come to me, for I have given my son's love-fruits as a price for you. And he went in to her that night.

HiringMarital SexMeeting PeopleMarital Sex Between

I'm unworthy of all your gracious love, your faithfulness, and everything that you've done for your servant. When I first crossed over this river, I had only my staff. But now I've become two groups.

KindnessHumilityStaffHumility, Examples OfTwo GroupsRiver CrossingsWalking With A StaffGod Showed His Lovingkindness

And Jacob said, Not so; but if I have grace in your eyes, take them as a sign of my love, for I have seen your face as one may see the face of God, and you have been pleased with me.

Heavenly FacesSmiling

Then he became very attached to Dinah, Jacob's daughter. He fell in love with the young woman and spoke romantically to her.

Affection, ExpressingHeart, HumanTendernessClinging To PeopleGentle WordsMen And Women Who LovedThe Love Of Women

But Hamor made this appeal to them: "My son Shechem is in love with your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.

Men And Women Who LovedGiving In Marriagehumor

But the LORD was with Joseph. He extended gracious love to him, causing the prison warden to be pleased with Joseph.

KindnessPrisonersDivine FavourGod With Specific PeopleGod Showed His LovingkindnessFavor

When the time drew near for him to die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise me that you will deal with me in kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt.

KindnessLoyaltyA Time To DieThighsNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon HappenImmigrants

And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph said to the servants of Pharaoh, If now you have love for me, say these words to Pharaoh:

But see that they make the same number of bricks as before, and no less: for they have no love for work; and so they are crying out and saying, Let us go and make an offering to our God.

Oppression, Examples OfNumbers ReducingNo Reduction

But he said, You have no love for work: that is why you say, Let us go and make an offering to the Lord.

humor

And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

EmployeesPeople Freeing SlavesWivesslaveryservanthood

If you see the ass of one who has no love for you bent down to the earth under the weight which is put on it, you are to come to its help, even against your desire.

evil, believers' responses toResponsibility, For God's WorldAnimal RightsHeavy BurdensPeople HelpingLoving Your Enemies

maintaining faithful love to a thousand generations, forgiving wrongdoing, rebellion, and sin. But He will not leave the guilty unpunished, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ wrongdoing on the children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation.

Iniquity, God's Attitude TowardPunishment, Nature OfUnforgivenessParents SinSins Of The FathersA Forgiving God

The Lord is slow to anger and rich in faithful love, forgiving wrongdoing and rebellion. But He will not leave the guilty unpunished, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ wrongdoing on the children to the third and fourth generation.

Fathers, Sin Of TheAbundant MercyGenerationsChildren, responsibilities to parentsGod, Patience OfReliabilityRestraintUnforgivenessLongsuffering Of GodParents SinSins Of The FathersA Forgiving GodSpeed Of God's AngerLove And ForgivenessAnger And ForgivenessParents LoveParents Being Wrong

Please pardon the wrongdoing of this people, in keeping with the greatness of Your faithful love, just as You have forgiven them from Egypt until now.”

God, Greatness OfGod Forgive!Love And Forgivenessgreatness

And because of his love for your fathers, he took their seed and made it his, and he himself, present among you, took you out of Egypt by his great power;

People Of God, In OtGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptGod's Love For IsraelDadsFathers Love

The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:

Adoption, nature ofFew PeopleMany In IsraelGod's Love For IsraelAffection

Rather it is because of his love for you and his faithfulness to the promise he solemnly vowed to your ancestors that the Lord brought you out with great power, redeeming you from the place of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

God, As RedeemerGod, Power OfHand Of GodOaths, DivineRedemption, In OtGod's HandGod Swearing BlessingsGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptGod's Love For Israel

"If you pay attention to these laws and obey them, then the LORD your God will continue his covenant of gracious love with you that he promised with an oath to your ancestors.

MultiplyingGod's Covenant With The PatriarchsGod Keeps Covenanthealthcare

And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

Temporal BlessingsFruitfulness, NaturalAlcoholdrinkingBlessings, To AbrahamOilWineWombProsperity PromisedAlcohol ConsumptionIncreasing FruitGod Multipling PeopleChildren BlessedGod Will Bless

Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.

election, privileges ofAs At This DayGod's Love For IsraelAffection

And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

Faithfulness, To GodHeart, And Holy SpiritWhole HeartednessObedience To GodThe Need To Love God

For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;

Commitment, to GodClinging To GodIf You Keep The CommandmentsThe Need To Love God

Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Whole HeartednessFalse Miracles, Nature OfLove For GodMisleading DreamsDo Not Listen!The Need To Love GodFalse Apostles, Prophets And TeachersFinding LoveThe SoulTests

If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:

Three CitiesWalking In The Ways Of GodIf You Keep The CommandmentsThe Need To Love God

And let the girl's father say to the responsible men, I gave my daughter to this man for his wife, but he has no love for her;

SinglenessGiving In MarriageMarriage Between Man And WomanMarriage KjvFathers And Daughters

But the Lord your God would not give ear to Balaam, but let the curse be changed into a blessing to you, because of his love for you.

People Of God, In OtBlessing And CurseCursing IsraelGod Turning Bad Things Into Goodcurses

And if the second husband has no love for her and, giving her a statement in writing, sends her away; or if death comes to the second husband to whom she was married;

Divorce Permitted

In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

God, Will OfLife, HumanRightsLife By LovingThe Need To Love GodKeep The Commandments!

That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

Commitment, to GodGod, Living And Self sustainingGod, The CreatorGod Of The FathersOrigins Of Spiritual LifeLove Towards God, Results InAncestorsLife Through Keeping The LawThe Need To Love God

About Levi he said: "Let your Thummim and Urim be with the man to whom you showed gracious love, whom you tested at Massah and with whom you struggled at the waters of Meribah,

High Priest, In OtTestingThe Urim And ThummimUrim And Thummim

But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Adoration, Of GodCommitment, to Godethics, and graceDedication In OtCommands, in OTHeart, And Holy SpiritGod's WaysWatchfulness, Of BelieversWorship, Acceptable AttitudesDuty Of Man To GodSpirituality, Principles OfLove Towards God, Nature OfLove For GodWhole HeartednessThe Need To Love GodWalking In God's WayKeep The Commandments!commandments

So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.

DawnDeborahNoonThe Number Forty40 To 50 YearsEnemies Of GodTime Of PeaceLove And StrengthSunPeace And Strengthcrusades

And they showed no gracious love to the household of Jerubbaal also known as Gideon despite all the good that he had done for Israel.

IngratitudeKindnessMannersUnfaithful

So Samson’s wife came to him, weeping, and said, “You hate me and don’t love me! You told my people the riddle, but haven’t explained it to me.”“Look,” he said, “I haven’t even explained it to my father or mother, so why should I explain it to you?”

CryingPeople Mourning CatastropheThose Who Did Not TellHating Individuals

Some time later, he fell in love with a woman named Delilah, who lived in the Sorek Valley.

Love, In RelationshipsMen And Women Who Loved

And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.

Communicating Three TimesIndividuals Who LiedMen And Women Who Loved

She said to them, “Each of you go back to your mother’s home. May the Lord show faithful love to you as you have shown to the dead and to me.

KindnessMothers Love For Her ChildrenDeath Of A Mother

Naomi replied, "May the one who hasn't abandoned his gracious love to the living or to the dead be blessed by the LORD." Naomi added, "This man is closely related to us, our related redeemer, as a matter of fact!"

KindnessKinsman redeemerRedemption, In Everyday LifeUnkindnessLife And DeathMay God Bless!

He replied, "May you be blessed by the LORD, my daughter. You've added to the gracious love you've already demonstrated by not pursuing younger men, whether rich or poor.

KindnessDealing With Young PeoplePoor Or RichYoung MarriageMay God Bless!

He will be a giver of new life to you, and your comforter when you are old, for your daughter-in-law, who, in her love for you, is better than seven sons, has given birth to him.

Maturity, PhysicalOld Age, Attainment OfSeven ChildrenDaughters In LawGood PeopleThose Who LovedRenewal

Saul said to the Kenites, "Go, leave! Withdraw from among the Amalekites so that I do not destroy you with them. You have shown loyal love to all the {Israelites} when they came up from Egypt." So the Kenites left from among [the] Amalekites.

Grace, In Human RelationshipsKindnessSeparation From Evil People

and all Israel and Judah love David when he is going out and coming in before them.

Tribes Of IsraelGoing Out And Coming InThose Who Loved

And Saul's daughter Michal was in love with David: and Saul had word of it and was pleased.

Marriage, Customs ConcerningMarriage, Purpose OfMen And Women Who Lovedsaul

And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king's son in law.

PrivacySons In LawThose Who Loved

So you must show loyal love to your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you. But if there [is] guilt in me, [then] kill me yourself! But why should you bring me to your father?"

Covenant ObligationsFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsKindnessLoyaltyNegotiationTreatyApproval To Kill OneselfWhat Sin?

If I continue to live, treat me with the Lord’s faithful love, but if I die,

Seeking Life

don’t ever withdraw your faithful love from my household—not even when the Lord cuts off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth.”

Then Saul was moved to wrath against Jonathan, and he said to him, You son of an evil and uncontrolled woman, have I not seen how you have given your love to the son of Jesse, to your shame and the shame of your mother?

Anger, HumanTemperAnger, Sinful ExamplesAnger Of Man, UnrighteousAnger Of Man, CauseChoosing PeopleNamed People Angry With OthersShame Has Comerebellion

So David sent messengers to the people of Jabesh-gilead and told them, "May the LORD bless you, because you showed gracious love like this to your lord Saul by burying him.

Messengers Sent OutKindnessMay God Bless!

Now may the Lord reward you with gracious love, as well as faithfulness, to you, too! And I will also reward you because you did this good thing.

AppreciationGoodnessdevotion

{Abner became very angry} at the words of Ish-Bosheth, and he said, "[Am] I the head of a dog which [is] for Judah today? Do I not continue to show loyal love with the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends? I have not let you fall into the hands of David, yet you have {accused me of sin with this woman} today.

BlameAnger, HumanLoyaltyOffenceNamed People Angry With OthersPeople Of Judah

But My faithful love will never leave him as I removed it from Saul; I removed him from your way.

Warnings Against ApostasyApostasy, Ot ExamplesDeposingGod Showed His Lovingkindnesssaul

Later on, David asked, "Is there anyone left alive from Saul's household to whom I can show gracious love in memory of Jonathan?"

David, Character OfGesturesHelpfulnessHousesGratitudeFamily And Friendsgrandfatherssaul

At this the king asked, "Isn't there still someone left from Saul's household to whom I may show God's gracious love?" "There's Jonathan's son. He has maimed feet," Ziba answered.

CripplesLamenessFatherless, Examples Of

"Don't be afraid," David reassured him, "because I'm going to show gracious love to you in memory of your father Jonathan. I'm going to restore to you all the land that belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you'll always have a place at my table!"

GrandparentsReinstatementRestitutionBenevolenceRestoring Thingsgrandfathersreassurance

so David told himself, "I will be loyal to Nahash's son Hanun, since in his loyalty his father showed gracious love to me." So David sent a delegation to Hanun to console him about his loss of his father.

Good FriendsenvoyCondolence

Sometime after this, David's son Amnon fell in love with David's other son Absalom's beautiful sister Tamar.

Beauty, In WomenNamed SistersMen And Women Who LovedBeautiful Women

And he was so deeply in love that he became ill because of his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin, and so it seemed hard to Amnon to do anything to her.

InfatuationSick IndividualsHard Tasks

And he said unto him, Why art thou, being the king's son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.

Men And Women Who LovedOther Sad People

Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone.

HatredSuffering, Causes OfDefraudingMen And Women Who LovedHating Individualsheartbroken

It seems only yesterday that you arrived, so should I make you wander around with us while I go wherever I can? Go back, and take your brothers with you. May gracious love and truth accompany you!"

Wanderers

Absalom said to Hushai, "This [is] your loyal love with your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?"

Loyalty

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
חשׁק 
Chashaq 
Usage: 11

φιλαδελφία 
Philadelphia 
Usage: 6

אהב אהב 
'ahab 
Usage: 212

אהב 
'ahab 
Usage: 2

אהבה 
'ahabah 
Usage: 36

דּד דּוד 
Dowd 
Usage: 61

חבב 
Chabab 
Usage: 1

חסד 
Checed 
Usage: 247

ידיד 
Y@diyd 
Usage: 10

מחמד 
Machmad 
Usage: 12

עגב 
`agab 
Usage: 7

עגב 
`egeb 
Usage: 2

עגבה 
`agabah 
Usage: 1

רחם 
Racham 
Usage: 47

רחם 
Racham 
Usage: 44

ריע רע 
Rea` 
Usage: 187

רעיה 
Ra`yah 
Usage: 9

G25
ἀγαπάω 
Agapao 
Usage: 92

G26
ἀγάπη 
Agape 
Usage: 105

προσφιλής 
Prosphiles 
Usage: 1

φιλάγαθος 
Philagathos 
Usage: 1

φιλάδελφος 
Philadelphos 
Usage: 1

φίλανδρος 
Philandros 
Usage: 1

φιλανθρωπία 
Philanthropia 
Usage: 2

φιλαργυρία 
Philarguria 
love of money
Usage: 1

φίλαυτος 
Philautos 
Usage: 1

φιλέω 
Phileo 
Usage: 13

φιλήδονος 
Philedonos 
Usage: 1

φιλονεξία 
Philoxenia 
Usage: 2

φιλόξενος 
Philoxenos 
Usage: 3

φιλοπρωτεύω 
Philoproteuo 
Usage: 1

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