'Loved' in the Bible

And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah to be his wife. Isaac loved her, and he was comforted after his mother’s death.

Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for wild game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother, and his mother made the delicious food his father loved.

Jacob loved Rachel, so he answered Laban, “I’ll work for you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

Jacob slept with Rachel also, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.

He became infatuated with Dinah, daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke tenderly to her.

Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons because Joseph was a son born to him in his old age, and he made a robe of many colors for him.

When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not bring themselves to speak peaceably to him.