Ancient Hebrew Word Meanings Love ~ ahav

We do not choose our parents or siblings but are instead given to us as a gift from above, a privileged gift. Even in the ancient Hebrew culture ones wife was chosen for you. It is our responsibility to provide and protect that privileged gift. In our modern Western culture love is an abstract thought of emotion, how one feels toward another but the Hebrew meaning goes much deeper. As a verb this word means "to provide and protect what is given as a privilege" as well as " to have an intimacy of action and emotion". We are told to love God and our neighbors, not in an emotional sense, but in the sense of our actions.

The Bible should be interpreted in a Hebrew/Israelite prospective because your actions should be guided by the laws, statutes, and commandments given to the Israelites.

The true protective gift is the comforter "the scriptures" and all Israelites are obligated to keep the laws, statutes, and commandments given by the Most High (Yahawah).

Moses was given over 600 laws and statutes for Israelites to follow and the Most High commanded everyone to abide by them!

A unrighteous person by action will not abide by righteousness but my actions should be to LOVE them?

Several scriptures to support what I said above:

Exodus 16:28 | Read whole chapter | See verse in contextAnd the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?

Genesis 26:5 | Read whole chapter | See verse in contextBecause that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

1 John 5:3 | Read whole chapter | See verse in contextFor this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

John 15:10 | Read whole chapter | See verse in contextIf ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father'scommandments, and abide in his love.

1 John 5:2 | Read whole chapter | See verse in contextBy this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep hiscommandments.

Nehemiah 9:13 | Read whole chapter | See verse in contextThou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:

John 14:15 | Read whole chapter | See verse in contextIf ye love me, keep my commandments.

Exodus 20:6 | Read whole chapter | See verse in contextAnd shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

Deuteronomy 5:10 | Read whole chapter | See verse in contextAnd shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

Deuteronomy 11:22 | Read whole chapter | See verse in contextFor if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, tolove the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;

Deuteronomy 7:9 | Read whole chapter | See verse in contextKnow therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenantand mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;

Deuteronomy 11:1 | Read whole chapter | See verse in contextTherefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.

Deuteronomy 11:13 | Read whole chapter | See verse in contextAnd it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart andwith all your soul,

Nehemiah 1:5 | Read whole chapter | See verse in contextAnd said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:

John 14:21 | Read whole chapter | See verse in contextHe that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

2 John 1:6 | Read whole chapter | See verse in contextAnd this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

Daniel 9:4 | Read whole chapter | See verse in contextAnd I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the greatand dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them thatkeep his commandments;

Joshua 22:5 | Read whole chapter | See verse in contextBut take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep hiscommandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Psalms 119:127 | Read whole chapter | See verse in contextTherefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.

Deuteronomy 30:16 | Read whole chapter | See verse in contextIn that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keephis commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

Deuteronomy 19:9 | Read whole chapter | See verse in contextIf thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:

Deuteronomy 26:13 | Read whole chapter | See verse in contextThen thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:
John 14:23 | Read whole chapter | See verse in contextJesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.