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
love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Loue not sleepe, lest thou come to pouertie: open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
1611 marginal noteChap. 19.15. and 12.11.
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Open rebuke is better then secret loue.
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
A time to loue, and a time to hate: a time of warre, and a time of peace.
FOR all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.
¶ For all this I considered in my heart, euen to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their workes, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either loue, or hatred, by all that is before them.
1611 marginal noteHebr. I gaue, or set to my heart.
Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Also their loue, and their hatred, and their enuy is now perished; neither haue they any more a portion for euer in any thing that is done vnder the Sunne.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.
Let him kisse mee with the kisses of his mouth: for thy Loue is better then wine.
1611 marginal noteHebr. thy loues.
1611 marginal noteChap.4.10.
Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
Because of the sauour of thy good ointments, thy name is as ointment powred forth, therefore doe the virgins loue thee.
Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.
Draw me, we will runne after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and reioyce in thee, we wil remember thy loue more then wine: the vpright loue thee.
1611 marginal noteOr, they loue thee vprightly.
1611 marginal noteIoh. 6.44.
I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh’s chariots.
I haue compared thee, O my loue, to a company of horses in Pharaohs chariots.
Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes.
Behold, thou art faire, my loue: behold, thou art faire, thou hast doues eyes.
1611 marginal noteOr, my companion.
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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
