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Bible Lexicons

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Strong's #163 - אַהֲוָא

Transliteration

ʼAhăvâʼ

Phonetics

a-hav-aw'

Origin

probably of foreign origin

Parts of Speech

proper locative noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

Ahava = "I shall subsist"
1. town or area in Babylonia

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (3)

Ezra 3

BSB (3)

Ezra 3

CSB (3)

Ezra 3

ESV (3)

Ezra 3

KJV (3)

Ezra 3

LEB (3)

Ezra 3

LSB (3)

Ezra 3

N95 (3)

Ezra 3

NAS (3)

Ezra 3

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (3)

Ezra 3

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

אַהֲוָא proper name, of a location town or district in Babylonia, by which a stream is designated Ezra 8:15,31, also the stream Ezra 8:21 (׳הנהו א), Ezra 8:31 (׳נְהַר א).

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

אַהֲוָא [Ahava], pr.n. of a river, Ezra 8:21, 31 Ezra 8:31 and of a bordering region, verse 15 Ezra 8:15, [But see below.] where Ezra gathered together the people about to return to their country. [“The same is probably meant in verse 15 Ezra 8:15, where we may render, ‘the river that runneth to the Ahava.’ It is hardly doubtful that the word prop. signifies water, aqua; comp. Sanscr. ap, Pers. ab, Goth. ahva, Lat. aqua. It is hard to say what river is meant; possibly the Euphrates, which was called κατʼ ἐξοχήν ‘the river,’ comp. הַנָּהָר.” Ges. add.]

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List of Word Forms

אַֽהֲוָ֗א אַהֲוָ֔א אהוא ’a·hă·wā ’ahăwā ahaVa