Gematria of Love
8 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “love” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 371 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.
- Hebrew equivalents
- 8
- Occurrences
- 371
- Distinct values
- 6
The 8 Hebrew words rendered “love”
The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.
to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)
First appearance ·Genesis 22:2בראשית כב:באָהַבְתָּ
(figuratively) to love; by implication, a love-token, lover, friend; specifically an uncle
First appearance ·Leviticus 10:4ויקרא י:דדֹּד
to fondle; by implication, to love, especially to compassionate
First appearance ·Exodus 33:19שמות לג:יטוְרִחַמְתִּי
{affection (in a good or a bad sense)}
First appearance ·Deuteronomy 7:8דברים ז:חמֵֽאַהֲבַת
a female associate
First appearance ·Judges 11:37שופטים יא:לזורעיתי
affection (in a good or a bad sense)
First appearance ·Hosea 8:9הושע ח:טאֲהָבִֽים
{affection (in a good or a bad sense)}
First appearance ·Proverbs 7:18משלי ז:יחבָּאֳהָבִֽים
properly, to hide (as in the bosom), i.e. to cherish (with affection)
First appearance ·Deuteronomy 33:3דברים לג:גחֹבֵב
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of love?
The Tanakh renders “love” with 8 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: אהב = 8, דוד = 14, רחם = 248, and 3 more.
How do you say love in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 8 Hebrew words for “love”; the most frequent are אהב (ʼâhab), 212 times; דוד (dôwd), 61 times; רחם (râcham), 47 times. Every one is listed on this page.
The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.