24 occurrences

'Lovers' in the Bible

"They say, 'If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man's, will he return to her again?' Wouldn't that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me," says Yahweh.

You, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck you with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with paint, in vain do you make yourself beautiful; [your] lovers despise you, they seek your life.

Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim; for all your lovers are destroyed.

The wind shall feed all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity: surely then you will be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.

All your lovers have forgotten you; they don't seek you: for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased.

She weeps bitterly in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her: All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies.

I called for my lovers, [but] they deceived me: My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, While they sought them food to refresh their souls.

They give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your prostitution.

Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, and for the blood of your children, that you gave to them;

therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved, with all those who you have hated; I will even gather them against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.

Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbors,

Therefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, on whom she doted.

Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will raise up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them against you on every side:

For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said, 'I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.'

She will follow after her lovers, but she won't overtake them; and she will seek them, but won't find them. Then she will say, 'I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.'

Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand.

I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, 'These are my wages that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest,' and the animals of the field shall eat them.

I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me," says Yahweh.

For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.

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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