Strong H163אַהֲוָא
Ahava
- Transliteration
- 'ahăvâ'
- Pronunciation
- a-hav-aw'
- Morphology
- Proper Name of a Location with no gender
Definition
Probably of foreign origin;
{Ahava} a river of Babylonia: - Ahava.
{Ahava} a river of Babylonia: - Ahava.
Meaning of the name
Ahava = "I shall subsist"
Detailed definition
Ahava, a location near Babylon where Ezra gathered the exiles before their return to Jerusalem.
In the biblical story
Ahava
A place where Ezra assembled the returning exiles.
Ahava, a location near Babylon where Ezra gathered the exiles before their return to Jerusalem.
In the Bible
Strong H163 appears in 3 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- ahava3
First verses
- Ezra 8:15And 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 8:21Then 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 8:31Then 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.