The following is a list of verses in the Jewish Scriptures containing either the Hebrew word usually translated in English by 'love' (= ahav, אָהַב). It was compiled using the lemma search function in Logos, based on the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. The English version used is the NET Bible, I have also added in square brackets after each entry the base word used in the Greek version (LXX). It will be seen that the Greek translators opted for agape-base as the norm.
Genesis 22:2 - God said, “Take your son – your only son, whom you love, Isaac – and go to the land of Moriah.” [= agape]
Genesis 24:67 - Then Isaac brought Rebekah into his mother Sarah’s tent. He took her as his wife and loved her. [= agape]
Genesis 25:28 - Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for fresh game, but Rebekah loved Jacob. [= agape]
Genesis 27:4 - Then prepare for me some tasty food, the kind I love, and bring it to me. [= philos]
Genesis 27:9 - Go to the flock and get me two of the best young goats. I’ll prepare them in a tasty way for your father, just the way he loves them. [= philos]
Genesis 27:14 - So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother. She prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it. [= philos]
Genesis 29:18 - Since Jacob had fallen in love with Rachel, he said, “I’ll serve you seven years in exchange for your younger daughter Rachel.” [= agape]
Genesis 29:20 - So Jacob worked for seven years to acquire Rachel. But they seemed like only a few days to him because his love for her was so great. [= agape]
Genesis 29:30 - Jacob had marital relations with Rachel as well. He loved Rachel more than Leah, so he worked for Laban for seven more years. [= agape]
Genesis 29:32 - So Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, for she said, “The Lord has looked with pity on my oppressed condition. Surely my husband will love me now.” [= agape]
Genesis 34:3 - Then he became very attached to Dinah, Jacob’s daughter. He fell in love with the young woman and spoke romantically to her. [= agape]
Genesis 37:3 - Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons because he was a son born to him late in life, and he made a special tunic for him. [= agape]
Genesis 37:4 - When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated Joseph and were not able to speak to him kindly. [= philos]
Genesis 44:20 - We said to my lord, ‘We have an aged father, and there is a young boy who was born when our father was old. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’ [= agape]
Exodus 20:6 - and showing covenant faithfulness to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments. [= agape]
Exodus 21:5 - But if the servant should declare, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free’ [= agape]
Leviticus 19:18 - You must not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the children of your people, but you must love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord. [= agape]
Leviticus 19:34 - The foreigner who resides with you must be to you like a native citizen among you; so you must love him as yourself, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God. [= agape]
Deuteronomy 4:37 - Moreover, because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants who followed them and personally brought you out of Egypt with his great power [= agape]
Deuteronomy 5:10 - but I show covenant faithfulness to the thousands who choose me and keep my commandments. [= agape]
Deuteronomy 6:5 - You must love the Lord your God with your whole mind, your whole being, and all your strength. [= agape]
Deuteronomy 7:9 - So realize that the Lord your God is the true God, the faithful God who keeps covenant faithfully with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations [= agape]
Deuteronomy 7:13 - He will love and bless you, and make you numerous. He will bless you with many children, with the produce of your soil, your grain, your new wine, your oil, the offspring of your oxen, and the young of your flocks in the land which he promised your ancestors to give you. [= agape]
Deuteronomy 10:12 - Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you except to revere him, to obey all his commandments, to love him, to serve him with all your mind and being... [= agape]
Deuteronomy 10:15 - However, only to your ancestors did he show his loving favor, and he chose you, their descendants, from all peoples – as is apparent today. [= agape]
Deuteronomy 10:18 - who justly treats the orphan and widow, and who loves resident foreigners, giving them food and clothing. [= agape]
Deuteronomy 10:19 - So you must love the resident foreigner because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 11:1 - You must love the Lord your God and do what he requires; keep his statutes, ordinances, and commandments at all times. [= agape]
Deuteronomy 11:13 - Now, if you pay close attention to my commandments that I am giving you today and love the Lord your God and serve him with all your mind and being, [= agape]
Deuteronomy 11:22 - For if you carefully observe all of these commandments I am giving you and love the Lord your God, live according to his standards, and remain loyal to him [= agape]
Deuteronomy 13:3 (v.4 in MT and LXX) - You must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer, for the Lord your God will be testing you to see if you love him with all your mind and being. [= agape]
Deuteronomy 15:16 - However, if the servant says to you, “I do not want to leave you,” because he loves you and your household, since he is well off with you [= agape]
Deuteronomy 19:9 - and then you are careful to observe all these commandments I am giving you today (namely, to love the Lord your God and to always walk in his ways), then you must add three more cities to these three. [= agape]
Deuteronomy 21:15 - Suppose a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other, and they both bear him sons [including the one he loves], with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife. [= agape]
Deuteronomy 21:16 - In the day he divides his inheritance he must not appoint as firstborn the son of the favorite wife in place of the other wife’s son who is actually the firstborn. [= agape]
Deuteronomy 23:5 - But the Lord your God refused to listen to Balaam and changed the curse to a blessing, for the Lord your God loves you. [= agape]
Deuteronomy 30:6 - The Lord your God will also cleanse your heart and the hearts of your descendants so that you may love him with all your mind and being and so that you may live. [= agape]
Deuteronomy 30:16 - What I am commanding you today is to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, and to obey his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances. Then you will live and become numerous and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you are about to possess. [= agape]
Deuteronomy 30:20 - I also call on you to love the Lord your God, to obey him and be loyal to him, for he gives you life and enables you to live continually in the land the Lord promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. [= agape]
Joshua 22:5 - But carefully obey the commands and instructions Moses the Lord’s servant gave you. Love the Lord your God, follow all his instructions, obey his commands, be loyal to him, and serve him with all your heart and being! [= agape]
Joshua 23:11 - Watch yourselves carefully! Love the Lord your God! [= agape]
Judges 5:31 - May all your enemies perish like this, O Lord! But may those who love you shine like the rising sun at its brightest! [= agape]
Judges 14:16 - So Samson’s bride cried on his shoulder and said, “You must hate me; you do not love me! You told the young men a riddle, but you have not told me the solution.” [= agape]
Judges 16:4 - After this Samson fell in love with a woman named Delilah, who lived in the Sorek Valley. [= agape]
Judges 16:15 - She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when you will not share your secret with me? Three times you have deceived me and have not told me what makes you so strong.” [= agape]
1 Samuel 1:5 - But he would give a double portion to Hannah, because he especially loved her. Now the Lord had not enabled her to have children. [= agape]
1 Samuel 16:21 - David came to Saul and stood before him. Saul liked him a great deal, and he became his armor bearer. [= agape]
1 Samuel 18:1 (this passage lacking in LXX) - When David had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan and David became bound together in close friendship. Jonathan loved David as much as he did his own life.
1 Samuel 18:3 (this passage lacking in LXX) - Jonathan made a covenant with David, for he loved him as much as he did his own life.
1 Samuel 18:16 - But all Israel and Judah loved David, for he was the one leading them out to battle and back. [= agape]
1 Samuel 18:20 - Now Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David. When they told Saul about this, it pleased him. [= agape]
1 Samuel 18:22 - Then Saul instructed his servants, “Tell David secretly, ‘The king is pleased with you, and all his servants like you. So now become the king’s son-in-law.” [= agape]
1 Samuel 18:28 - When Saul realized that the Lord was with David and that his daughter Michal loved David [= agape]
1 Samuel 20:17 - Jonathan once again took an oath with David, because he loved him. In fact Jonathan loved him as much as he did his own life. [= agape]
2 Samuel 1:23 - Saul and Jonathan were greatly loved during their lives, and not even in their deaths were they separated. [= agape]
2 Samuel 12:24 - So David comforted his wife Bathsheba. He went to her and had marital relations with her. She gave birth to a son, and David named him Solomon. Now the Lord loved the child [= agape]
2 Samuel 13:1 - Now David’s son Absalom had a beautiful sister named Tamar. In the course of time David’s son Amnon fell madly in love with her. [= agape]
2 Samuel 13:4 - He asked Amnon, “Why are you, the king’s son, so depressed every morning? Can’t you tell me?” So Amnon said to him, “I’m in love with Tamar the sister of my brother Absalom.” [= agape]
2 Samuel 13:15 - Then Amnon greatly despised her. His disdain toward her surpassed the love he had previously felt toward her. Amnon said to her, “Get up and leave!” [= agape]
2 Samuel 19:6 (v.7 in MT and LXX) - You seem to love your enemies and hate your friends! For you have as much as declared today that leaders and servants don’t matter to you. I realize now that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, it would be all right with you. [= agape]
1 Kings 3:3 - Solomon demonstrated his loyalty to the Lord by following the practices of his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places. [= agape]
1 Kings 5:1 (v.15 in MT and LXX) - King Hiram of Tyre sent messengers to Solomon when he heard that he had been anointed king in his father’s place. (Hiram had always been an ally of David.) [= agape]
1 Kings 10:9 - May the Lord your God be praised because he favored you by placing you on the throne of Israel! Because of the Lord’s eternal love for Israel, he made you king so you could make just and right decisions. [= agape]
1 Kings 11:1 - King Solomon fell in love with many foreign women (besides Pharaoh’s daughter), including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites. [= philos]
1 Kings 11:2 - They came from nations about which the Lord had warned the Israelites, “You must not establish friendly relations with them! If you do, they will surely shift your allegiance to their gods.” But Solomon was irresistibly attracted to them. [= agape]
Isaiah 1:23 - Your officials are rebels, they associate with thieves. All of them love bribery, and look for payoffs. They do not take up the cause of the orphan, or defend the rights of the widow. [= agape]
Isaiah 41:8 - “You, my servant Israel, Jacob whom I have chosen, offspring of Abraham my friend [= agape]
Isaiah 43:4 - Since you are precious and special in my sight, and I love you, I will hand over people in place of you, nations in place of your life. [= agape]
Isaiah 48:14 - All of you, gather together and listen! Who among them announced these things? The Lord’s ally will carry out his desire against Babylon; he will exert his power against the Babylonians. [= agape]
Isaiah 56:6 - As for foreigners who become followers of the Lord and serve him, who love the name of the Lord and want to be his servants – all who observe the Sabbath and do not defile it, and who are faithful to my covenant [= agape]
Isaiah 56:10 - All their watchmen are blind, they are unaware. All of them are like mute dogs, unable to bark. They pant, lie down, and love to snooze. [= philos]
Isaiah 57:8 - Behind the door and doorpost you put your symbols. Indeed, you depart from me and go up and invite them into bed with you. You purchase favors from them, you love their bed, and gaze longingly on their genitals. [= agape]
Isaiah 61:8 - For I, the Lord, love justice and hate robbery and sin. I will repay them because of my faithfulness; I will make a permanent covenant with them.
Isaiah 66:10 - Be happy for Jerusalem and rejoice with her, all you who love her! Share in her great joy, all you who have mourned over her! [= agape]
Jeremiah 2:25 - Do not chase after other gods until your shoes wear out and your throats become dry. But you say, ‘It is useless for you to try and stop me because I love those foreign gods and want to pursue them!’ [= agape]
Jeremiah 5:31 - The prophets prophesy lies. The priests exercise power by their own authority. And my people love to have it this way. But they will not be able to help you when the time of judgment comes! [= agape]
Jeremiah 8:2 - They will be spread out and exposed to the sun, the moon and the stars. These are things they adored and served, things to which they paid allegiance, from which they sought guidance, and worshiped. The bones of these people will never be regathered and reburied. They will be like manure used to fertilize the ground. [= agape]
Jeremiah 14:10 - Then the Lord spoke about these people. “They truly love to go astray. They cannot keep from running away from me. So I am not pleased with them. I will now call to mind the wrongs they have done and punish them for their sins.” [= agape]
Jeremiah 20:4 - For the Lord says, ‘I will make both you and your friends terrified of what will happen to you. [= philos]
Jeremiah 20:6 - You, Pashhur, and all your household will go into exile in Babylon. You will die there and you will be buried there. The same thing will happen to all your friends to whom you have prophesied lies. [= philos]
Jeremiah 22:20 - People of Jerusalem, go up to Lebanon and cry out in mourning. Go to the land of Bashan and cry out loudly. Cry out in mourning from the mountains of Moab. For your allies have all been defeated. [= erastes]
Jeremiah 22:22 - My judgment will carry off all your leaders like a storm wind! Your allies will go into captivity. Then you will certainly be disgraced and put to shame because of all the wickedness you have done. [= erastes]
Jeremiah 30:14 (this passage lacking in LXX) - All your allies have abandoned you. They no longer have any concern for you. For I have attacked you like an enemy would. I have chastened you cruelly. For your wickedness is so great and your sin is so much.
Jeremiah 31:3 (this passage lacking in LXX) - In a far-off land the Lord will manifest himself to them. He will say to them, ‘I have loved you with an everlasting love. That is why I have continued to be faithful to you.
Ezekiel 16:33 - All prostitutes receive payment, but instead you give gifts to every one of your lovers. You bribe them to come to you from all around for your sexual favors! [= erastes]
Ezekiel 16:36 - This is what the sovereign Lord says: Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness was uncovered in your prostitution with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your children you have given to them [= erastes]
Ezekiel 16:37 - therefore, take note: I am about to gather all your lovers whom you enjoyed, both all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around, and I will expose your nakedness to them, and they will see all your nakedness. [= agape + erastes]
Ezekiel 23:5 - Oholah engaged in prostitution while she was mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians – warriors [= erastes]
Ezekiel 23:9 - Therefore I handed her over to her lovers, the Assyrians for whom she lusted. [= erastes]
Ezekiel 23:22 - Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look here, I am about to stir up against you the lovers with whom you were disgusted; I will bring them against you from every side [= erastes]
Hosea 2:5 (v.7 in MT and LXX) - For their mother has committed adultery; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, “I will seek out my lovers; they are the ones who give me my bread and my water, my wool, my flax, my olive oil, and my wine. [= erastes]
Hosea 2:7 (v.9 in MT and LXX) - Then she will pursue her lovers, but she will not catch them; she will seek them, but she will not find them. Then she will say, “I will go back to my husband, because I was better off then than I am now.” [= erastes]
Hosea 2:10 (v.12 in MT and LXX) - Soon I will expose her lewd nakedness in front of her lovers, and no one will be able to rescue her from me! [= erastes]
Hosea 2:12 (v.14 in MT and LXX) - I will destroy her vines and fig trees, about which she said, “These are my wages for prostitution that my lovers gave to me!” [= erastes]
Hosea 2:13 (v.15 in MT and LXX) - I will punish her for the festival days when she burned incense to the Baal idols; she adorned herself with earrings and jewelry, and went after her lovers, but she forgot me!” says the Lord. [= erastes]
Hosea 3:1 - The Lord said to me, “Go, show love to your wife again, even though she loves another man and continually commits adultery. Likewise, the Lord loves the Israelites although they turn to other gods and love to offer raisin cakes to idols.” [= agape (x3) + philos]
Hosea 4:18 - They consume their alcohol, then engage in cult prostitution; they dearly love their shameful behavior. [= agape]
Hosea 9:1 - O Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly like the nations, for you are unfaithful to your God. You love to receive a prostitute’s wages on all the floors where you thresh your grain. [= agape]
Hosea 9:10 - When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the wilderness. I viewed your ancestors like an early fig on a fig tree in its first season. Then they came to Baal-Peor and they dedicated themselves to shame – they became as detestable as what they loved. [= agape]
Hosea 9:15 - Because of all their evil in Gilgal, I hate them there. On account of their evil deeds, I will drive them out of my land. I will no longer love them; all their rulers are rebels. [= agape]
Hosea 10:11 - Ephraim was a well-trained heifer who loved to thresh grain; I myself put a fine yokeon her neck. I will harness Ephraim. Let Judah plow! Let Jacob break up the unplowed ground for himself! [= agape]
Hosea 11:1 - When Israel was a young man, I loved him like a son, and I summoned my son out of Egypt. [= agape]
Hosea 12:7 (v. 8 in MT and LXX) - The businessmen love to cheat; they use dishonest scales. [= agape]
Hosea 14:4 (v. 5 in MT and LXX) - “I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger will turn away from them. [= agape]
Amos 4:5 - “Burn a thank offering of bread made with yeast! Make a public display of your voluntary offerings! For you love to do this, you Israelites.” The sovereign Lord is speaking! [= agape]
Amos 5:15 - Hate what is wrong, love what is right! Promote justice at the city gate! [= agape]
Micah 3:2 - yet you hate what is good and love what is evil. You flay my people’s skin and rip the flesh from their bones. [= zeteo]
Micah 6:8 - He has told you, O man, what is good, and what the Lord really wants from you: He wants you to promote justice, to be faithful, and to live obediently before your God. [= agape]
Zechariah 8:17 - Do not plan evil in your hearts against one another. Do not favor a false oath – these are all things that I hate,’ says the Lord.” [= agape]
Zechariah 8:19 - “The Lord who rules over all says, ‘The fast of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months will become joyful and happy, pleasant feasts for the house of Judah, so love truth and peace.’ [= agape]
Zechariah 13:6 - Then someone will ask him, ‘What are these wounds on your chest?’ and he will answer, ‘Some that I received in the house of my friends.’ [= agape]
Malachi 1:2 - “I have shown love to you,” says the Lord, but you say, “How have you shown love to us?” “Esau was Jacob’s brother,” the Lord explains, “yet I chose Jacob [= agape]
Malachi 2:11 - Judah has become disloyal, and unspeakable sins have been committed in Israel and Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the holy things that the Lord loves and has turned to a foreign god! [= agape]
Psalm 4:2 (v.3 in MT and LXX) - You men, how long will you try to turn my honor into shame? How long will you love what is worthless and search for what is deceptive? [= agape]
Psalm 5:11 (v.12 in MT and LXX) - But may all who take shelter in you be happy! May they continually shout for joy! Shelter them so that those who are loyal to you may rejoice! [= agape]
Psalm 11:5 (Ps. 10:5 in LXX) - The Lord approves of the godly, but he hates the wicked and those who love to do violence. [= agape]
Psalm 11:7 (Ps. 10:7 in LXX) - Certainly the Lord is just; he rewards godly deeds; the upright will experience his favor. [= agape]
Psalm 26:8 (Ps. 25:8 in LXX) - O Lord, I love the temple where you live, the place where your splendor is revealed. [= agape]
Psalm 31:23 (Ps. 31:24 in MT; 30:24 in LXX) - Love the Lord, all you faithful followers of his! The Lord protects those who have integrity, but he pays back in full the one who acts arrogantly. [= agape]
Psalm 33:5 (Ps. 32:5 in LXX) - The Lord promotes equity and justice; the Lord’s faithfulness extends throughout the earth. [= agape]
Psalm 34:12 (Ps. 34:13 in MT; 33:13 in LXX) - Do you want to really live? Would you love to live a long, happy life? [= agape]
Psalm 37:28 (Ps. 36:28 in LXX) - For the Lord promotes justice, and never abandons his faithful followers. They are permanently secure, but the children of evil men are wiped out. [= agape]
Psalm 38:11 (Ps. 38:12 in MT; 37:12 in LXX) - Because of my condition, even my friends and acquaintances keep their distance; my neighbors stand far away. [= philos]
Psalm 40:16 (Ps. 40:17 in MT; 39:17 in LXX) - May all those who seek you be happy and rejoice in you! May those who love to experience your deliverance say continually, “May the Lord be praised!” [= agape]
Psalm 45:7 (Ps. 45:8 in MT; 44:8 in LXX) - You love justice and hate evil. For this reason God, your God has anointed you with the oil of joy, elevating you above your companions. [= agape]
Psalm 47:4 (Ps. 47:5 in MT; 46:5 in LXX) - He picked out for us a special land to be a source of pride for Jacob, whom he loves. [= agape]
Psalm 52:3 (Ps. 52:5 in MT; 51:5 in LXX) - You love evil more than good, lies more than speaking the truth. [= agape]
Psalm 52:4 (Ps. 52:6 in MT; 51:6 in LXX) - You love to use all the words that destroy, and the tongue that deceives. [= agape]
Psalm 69:36 (Ps. 69:37 in MT; 68:37 in LXX) - The descendants of his servants will inherit it, and those who are loyal to him will live in it. [= agape]
Psalm 70:4 (Ps. 70:5 in MT; 69:5 in LXX) - May all those who seek you be happy and rejoice in you! May those who love to experience your deliverance say continually, “May God be praised!” [= agape]
Psalm 78:68 (Ps. 77:68 in LXX) - He chose the tribe of Judah, and Mount Zion, which he loves. [= agape]
Psalm 87:2 (Ps. 86:2 in LXX) - The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob. [= agape]
Psalm 88:18 (Ps. 88:19 in MT; 87:19 in LXX) - You cause my friends and neighbors to keep their distance; those who know me leave me alone in the darkness. [= philos]
Psalm 97:10 (Ps. 96:10 in LXX) - You who love the Lord, hate evil! He protects the lives of his faithful followers; he delivers them from the power of the wicked. [= agape]
Psalm 99:4 (Ps. 98:4 in LXX) - The king is strong; he loves justice. You ensure that legal decisions will be made fairly; you promote justice and equity in Jacob. [= agape]
Psalm 109:17 (Ps. 108:17 in LXX) - He loved to curse others, so those curses have come upon him. He had no desire to bless anyone, so he has experienced no blessings. [= agape]
Psalm 116:1 (Ps. 114:1 in LXX) - I love the Lord because he heard my plea for mercy [= agape]
Psalm 119:47 (Ps. 118:47 in LXX) - I will find delight in your commands, which I love. [= agape]
Psalm 119:48 (Ps. 118:48 in LXX) - I will lift my hands to your commands, which I love, and I will meditate on your statutes. [= agape]
Psalm 119:97 (Ps. 118:97 in LXX) - O how I love your law! All day long I meditate on it. [= agape]
Psalm 119:119 (Ps. 118:119 in LXX) - You remove all the wicked of the earth like slag. Therefore I love your rules. [= agape]
Psalm 119:127 (Ps. 118:127 in LXX) - For this reason I love your commands more than gold, even purest gold. [= agape]
Psalm 119:132 (Ps. 118:132 in LXX) - Turn toward me and extend mercy to me, as you typically do to your loyal followers. [= agape]
Psalm 119:140 (Ps. 118:140 in LXX) - Your word is absolutely pure, and your servant loves it! [= agape]
Psalm 119:159 (Ps. 118:159 in LXX) - See how I love your precepts! O Lord, revive me with your loyal love! [= agape]
Psalm 119:163 (Ps. 118:163 in LXX) - I hate and despise deceit; I love your law. [= agape]
Psalm 119:165 (Ps. 118:165 in LXX) - Those who love your law are completely secure; nothing causes them to stumble. [= agape]
Psalm 119:167 (Ps. 118:167 in LXX) - I keep your rules; I love them greatly. [= agape]
Psalm 122:6 (Ps. 121:6 in LXX) - Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! May those who love her prosper! [= agape]
Psalm 145:20 (Ps. 144:20 in LXX) - The Lord protects those who love him, but he destroys all the wicked. [= agape]
Psalm 146:8 (Ps. 145:8 in LXX) - The Lord gives sight to the blind. The Lord lifts up all who are bent over. The Lord loves the godly. [= agape]
Job 19:19 - All my closest friends detest me; and those whom I love have turned against me. [= agape]
Proverbs 1:22 - “How long will you simpletons love naiveté? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge? [different reading in LXX]
Proverbs 3:12 - For the Lord disciplines those he loves, just as a father disciplines the son in whom he delights. [= agape]
Proverbs 4:6 - Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will guard you. [= erao]
Proverbs 8:17 - I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me. [= philos]
Proverbs 8:21 - that I may cause those who love me to inherit wealth, and that I may fill their treasuries. [= agape]
Proverbs 8:36 - But the one who does not find me brings harm to himself; all who hate me love death. [= agape]
Proverbs 9:8 - Do not reprove a mocker or he will hate you; reprove a wise person and he will love you. [= agape]
Proverbs 12:1 - The one who loves discipline loves knowledge, but the one who hates reproof is stupid. [= agape]
Proverbs 13:24 - The one who spares his rod hates his child, but the one who loves his child is diligent in disciplining him. [= agape]
Proverbs 14:20 - A poor person is disliked even by his neighbors, but those who love the rich are many. [= agape]
Proverbs 15:9 - The Lord abhors the way of the wicked, but he loves those who pursue righteousness. [= agape]
Proverbs 15:12 - The scorner does not love one who corrects him; he will not go to the wise. [= agape]
Proverbs 16:13 - The delight of kings is righteous counsel, and they love the one who speaks uprightly. [= agape]
Proverbs 17:17 - A friend loves at all times, and a relative is born to help in adversity. [= philos]
Proverbs 17:19 - The one who loves a quarrel loves transgression; whoever builds his gate high seeks destruction. [= philos]
Proverbs 18:21 - Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love its use will eat its fruit. [LXX reads differently]
Proverbs 18:24 [this passage not attested in LXX] - A person who has friends may be harmed by them, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Proverbs 19:8 - The one who acquires wisdom loves himself; the one who preserves understanding will prosper. [= agape]
Proverbs 20:13 - Do not love sleep, lest you become impoverished; open your eyes so that you might be satisfied with food. [= agape]
Proverbs 21:17 - The one who loves pleasure will be a poor person; whoever loves wine and anointing oil will not be rich. [= agape + philos]
Proverbs 22:11 - The one who loves a pure heart and whose speech is gracious – the king will be his friend. [= agape]
Proverbs 27:6 - Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are excessive. [= philos]
Proverbs 29:3 - The man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but whoever associates with prostitutes wastes his wealth. [= philos]
Ruth 4:15 - He will encourage you and provide for you when you are old, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, has given him birth. She is better to you than seven sons! [= agape]
Song of Solomon 1:3 - The fragrance of your colognes is delightful; your name is like the finest perfume. No wonder the young women adore you! [= agape]
Song of Solomon 1:4 - Draw me after you; let us hurry! May the king bring me into his bedroom chambers! We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. How rightly the young women adore you! [= agape]
Song of Solomon 1:7 - Tell me, O you whom my heart loves, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest your sheep during the midday heat? Tell me lest I wander around beside the flocks of your companions! [= agape]
Song of Solomon 3:1 - All night long on my bed I longed for my lover. I longed for him but he never appeared. [= agape]
Song of Solomon 3:2 - “I will arise and look all around throughout the town, and throughout the streets and squares; I will search for my beloved.” I searched for him but I did not find him. [= agape]
Song of Solomon 3:3 - The night watchmen found me – the ones who guard the city walls. “Have you seen my beloved?” [= agape]
Song of Solomon 3:4 - Scarcely had I passed them by when I found my beloved! I held onto him tightly and would not let him go. until I brought him to my mother’s house, to the bedroom chamber of the one who conceived me. [= agape]
Ecclesiastes 3:8 - A time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace. [= philos]
Ecclesiastes 5:10 (v. 9 in MT and LXX) - The one who loves money will never be satisfied with money, he who loves wealth will never be satisfied with his income. This also is futile. [= agape]
Ecclesiastes 9:9 - Enjoy life with your beloved wife during all the days of your fleeting life that God has given you on earth during all your fleeting days; for that is your reward in life and in your burdensome work on earth. [= agape]
Lamentations 1:2 - She weeps bitterly at night; tears stream down her cheeks. She has no one to comfort her among all her lovers. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.[= agape]
Lamentations 1:19 - I called for my lovers, but they had deceived me. My priests and my elders perished in the city. Truly they had searched for food to keep themselves alive. [= erastes]
Esther 2:17 - And the king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she met with his loving approval more than all the other young women. [= erao]
Esther 5:10 - But Haman restrained himself and went on to his home. He then sent for his friends to join him, along with his wife Zeresh. [= philos]
Esther 5:14 - Haman’s wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Have a gallows seventy-five feet high built, and in the morning tell the king that Mordecai should be hanged on it. Then go with the king to the banquet contented.” [philos]
Esther 6:13 - Haman then related to his wife Zeresh and to all his friends everything that had happened to him. [= philos]
Daniel 9:4 - I prayed to the LORD my God, confessing in this way: “O Lord, great and awesome God who is faithful to his covenant with those who love him and keep his commandments [= agape]
Nehemiah 1:5 - Then I said, “Please, O LORD God of heaven, great and awesome God, who keeps his loving covenant with those who love him and obey his commandments [= agape]
Nehemiah 13:26 - Was it not because of things like these that King Solomon of Israel sinned? Among the many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. But the foreign wives made even him sin! [= agape]
2 Chronicles 2:11 (v.10 in MT and LXX) - King Huram of Tyre sent this letter to Solomon: “Because the Lord loves his people, he has made you their king.” [= agape]
2 Chronicles 9:8 - May the Lord your God be praised because he favored you by placing you on his throne as the one ruling on his behalf! Because of your God’s love for Israel and his lasting commitment to them, he made you king over them so you could make just and right decisions.” [= agape]
2 Chronicles 11:21 - Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than his other wives and concubines. He had eighteen wives and sixty concubines; he fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters. [= agape]
2 Chronicles 19:2 - the prophet Jehu son of Hanani confronted him; he said to King Jehoshaphat, “Is it right to help the wicked and be an ally of those who oppose the Lord? Because you have done this the Lord is angry with you! [= agape]
2 Chronicles 20:7 - Our God, you drove out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and gave it as a permanent possession to the descendants of your friend Abraham. [= agape]
2 Chronicles 26:10 - He built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns, for he owned many herds in the lowlands and on the plain. He had workers in the fields and vineyards in the hills and in Carmel, for he loved agriculture. [= philos]