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Lexicon :: Strong's H163 - 'ahăvā'

Aa
אַהֲוָא
Transliteration
'ahăvā'
Pronunciation
a-hav-aw'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably of foreign origin
Strong’s Definitions

אַהֲוָא ʼAhăvâʼ, a-hav-aw'; probably of foreign origin; Ahava, a river of Babylonia:—Ahava.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x

The KJV translates Strong's H163 in the following manner: Ahava (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x
The KJV translates Strong's H163 in the following manner: Ahava (3x).

  1. Ahava = "I shall subsist"

    1. town or area in Babylonia

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אַהֲוָא ʼAhăvâʼ, a-hav-aw'; probably of foreign origin; Ahava, a river of Babylonia:—Ahava.
STRONGS H163: Abbreviations
† 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׳).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Ezra

8:15; 8:21; 8:31; 8:31

H163

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H163 matches the Hebrew אַהֲוָא ('ahăvā'),
which occurs 3 times in 3 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:15 -

I gathered them at the river[fn] that flows to Ahava, and we camped there for three days. I searched among the people and priests, but found no Levites there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:21

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I proclaimed a fast by the Ahava River,[fn] so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us, our dependents, and all our possessions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:31 -

We set out from the Ahava River on the twelfth day of the first month to go to Jerusalem. We were strengthened by our God,[fn] and he kept us from the grasp of the enemy and from ambush along the way.

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