Proverbs 8:36:5Prov.8.36.W5TAB
אָ֣הֲבוּ
ahavu
“love”
- Transliteration
- a-ha-VU
- Extended
- aa-hah-VUH
- IPA
- /ʔaːhăˈvuː/
Meaning by language
- English
- love
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Qamets | long 'ah' | |
| He | h as in house; silent at word end | |
| Hateph Patach | reduced 'ah' | |
| Bet | b with dagesh; v without dagesh | |
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū |
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Word in context
- word
a-ha-VU
- phraseyour reading level
a-ha-VU MA-vet
- clause
kol-me-sa-NE a-ha-VU MA-vet
- sentence
ve-kho-TE kho-MES naf-SHO kol-me-sa-NE a-ha-VU MA-vet
Exegesis
The universal quantifier kôl {כָּל־ | kôl} heads a second protasis with the Piel participle mesan’a’i {מְ֝שַׂנְאַ֗י | mə-sa-nāʾ-î} ‘those who hate me’, followed by the perfect ‘ăhavû {אָ֣הֲבוּ | ʾă-ha-vû} ‘they loved’ with mâvêth {מָֽוֶת׃ | mâ-vêth} ‘death’ as its object. Hebrew parallelism contrasts self-destructive sin with a preference for death through hate. The translation preserves the correlative participial clauses and literal objects to reflect the emphatic causality in English.
Root and etymology
Rootaleph–he–bet
“to love, regard with affection”
In context — Proverbs 8:36
But whoever sins against Me does violence to his own soul ; all who hate Me love death .
About this coordinate
Proverbs 8:36:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Proverbs 8:36, so the Hebrew word אָ֣הֲבוּ (ahavu) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Prov.8.36.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Prov.8.36.W5.S1) and character.