KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: Affection, attachment, delight, goodwill, commitment, or devotion. Sense 2: To regard with affection or devotion. Sense 3: A beloved person.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 27:4
Complete exact-word concordance
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
How long, ye simple ones, will ye loue simplicitie? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fooles hate knowledge?
Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
Forsake her not, and she shall preserue thee: loue her, and she shall keepe thee.
Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
Let her bee as the louing Hinde and pleasant Roe, let her breasts satisfie thee at all times, and be thou rauisht alwayes with her loue.
1611 marginal noteHeb. water thee.
1611 marginal noteHeb. erre thou alwayes in her loue.
Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
Come, let vs take our fill of loue vntill the morning, let vs solace our selues with loues.
I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
I loue them that loue me, and those that seeke me early, shall find me.
That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.
That I may cause those that loue me, to inherite substance: and I will fill their treasures.
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
But hee that sinneth against me, wrongeth his owne soule; all they that hate me, loue death.
Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
Reproue not a scorner, lest hee hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and hee will loue thee.
1611 marginal noteMat.7.16.
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Hatred stirreth vp strifes: but loue couereth all sinnes.
1611 marginal note1.Pet.4.8. 1.cor.13.4.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Better is a dinner of herbes where loue is, then a stalled oxe, and hatred therewith.
1611 marginal noteChap. 17.1.
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1 · Direct Scripture definition
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
And 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.
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
2 · KJV context and cross-references
