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Lexicon :: Strong's H163 - 'ahăvā'

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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׳).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Ezra

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

H163

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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 Box Ezr 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:15 - I assembled them at the canal that flows toward Ahava, and we camped there three days. When I checked among the people and the priests, I found no Levites there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:21 - There, by the Ahava Canal, I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 8:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:31 - On the twelfth day of the first month we set out from the Ahava Canal to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he protected us from enemies and bandits along the way.
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