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
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, that yee being rooted and grounded in loue,
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
And to know the loue of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that yee might bee filled with all the fulnesse of God.
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
With all lowlinesse and meekenesse, with long suffering, forbearing one another in loue.
But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
But speaking the trueth in loue, may grow vp into him in all things which is the head, euen Christ:
1611 marginal noteOr, being sincere.
From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
From whom the whole body fitly ioyned together, and compacted by that which euery ioynt supplyeth, according to the effectuall working in the measure of euery part, maketh increase of the body, vnto the edifying of it selfe in loue.
1611 marginal noteCol. 2.19.
And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
And walke in loue, as Christ also hath loued vs, and hath giuen himselfe for vs, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling sauour;
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Husbands, loue your wiues, euen as Christ also loued the Church, and gaue himselfe for it:
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
So ought men to loue their wiues, as their owne bodies: hee that loueth his wife, loueth himselfe.
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Neuerthelesse, let euery one of you in particular, so loue his wife euen as himselfe, and the wife see that she reuerence her husband.
Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Peace be to the brethren, and loue, with faith from God the Father, and the Lord Iesus Christ.
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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
