Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H163: אַהֲוָא

ʼAhăvâʼ · pronounced a-hav-aw' · “Ahava”

Definition

Ahava, a river of Babylonia

KJV translates it as: Ahava.

Word origin: probably of foreign origin;

Extended definition

§ Ahava = "I shall subsist"
town or area in Babylonia

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H163 is translated

  • ahava ×3

Bible verses with H163 (ʼAhăvâʼ)

ʼahăvâʼ appears in 3 verses.

  • 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.