'Lover' in the Bible

And Hiram king of Tyre sendeth his servants unto Solomon, for he heard that they had anointed him for king instead of his father, for Hiram was a lover of David all the days;

and he buildeth towers in the wilderness, and diggeth many wells, for he had much cattle, both in the low country and in the plain, husbandmen and vine-dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel; for he was a lover of the ground.

Jehovah the righteous doth try. And the wicked and the lover of violence, Hath His soul hated,

Thou hast put far from me lover and friend, Mine acquaintance is the place of darkness!

A man with friends is to show himself friendly, And there is a lover adhering more than a brother!

Faithful are the wounds of a lover, And abundant the kisses of an enemy.

-- And thou, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, Seed of Abraham, My lover,

not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,

but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,