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title: חָבַב — love · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חָבַב (2245), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: love. BDB 1906: vb. love. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חָבַב

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«חָבַב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **love** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 2245 · **BDB:** חָבַב

### Glosses

\[he.is\].loving (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

love [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2245/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. love [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2245/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. love (NH Pi. id.; Arabic حَبَّ be loved; Ethiopic ተሐበበ amore alicujus incendi Di; Aramaic ܚܰܒ kindle, be set on fire, ܚܰܒܶܒ, חַבֵּב love, embrace, חוּבָּא bosom)— Pt. אַף חֹבֵב עַמִּים Dt 33:3 (Di reads עַמּוֹ, cf. 𝔊).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חָבַב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2245/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Deuteronomy 33:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.33.3/)

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אַ֚ף חֹבֵ֣ב עַמִּ֔ים כָּל־קְדֹשָׁ֖יו בְּיָדֶ֑ךָ וְהֵם֙ תֻּכּ֣וּ לְרַגְלֶ֔ךָ יִשָּׂ֖א מִדַּבְּרֹתֶֽיךָ׃

*Word for word:* also \[he.is\].loving peoples all his.holy \[ones\] \[are\].in hand your and they they.were.led to foot your he.will.take from words your

*JPS 1917:* Yea, He loveth the peoples, all His holy ones — they are in Thy hand; and they sit down at Thy feet, receiving of Thy words.

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