Bible Names

Ahava: meaning of the name

Ahava means “essence; being; generation.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Ahava in Hebrew and Greek

אַהֲוָא H163

ʼAhăvâʼ (a-hav-aw') — Ahava, a river of Babylonia

probably of foreign origin;

Places named Ahava

Ahava in Scripture

“Ahava” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.

  • Ezra 8:15

    And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.

  • Ezra 8:21

    Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

  • Ezra 8:31

    Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.