Strong's Hebrew English Morphology 589 [e] אֲ֭נִי ’ă-nî I Pro-1cs   [אהביה] [’ō-hă-ḇe-hā - Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct :: third person feminine singular V-Qal-Prtcpl-mpc | 3fs   ḵ]   1a) (Qal) 1a1) human love for another, includes family, and sexual 1a2) human appetite for objects such as food, drink, sleep, wisdom 1a3) human love for or to God 1a4) act of being a friend 1a4a) lover (participle) 1a4b) friend (participle) 1a5) God's love toward man 1a5a) to individual men 1a5b) to people Israel 1a5c) to righteousness 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) lovely (participle) 1b2) loveable (participle) 1c) (Piel) 1c1) friends 1c2) lovers (fig. of adulterers) 2) to like">157 [e] (אֹהֲבַ֣י) (’ō-hă-ḇay those who love me V-Qal-Prtcpl-mpc | 1cs   q)   1a) (Qal) 1a1) human love for another, includes family, and sexual 1a2) human appetite for objects such as food, drink, sleep, wisdom 1a3) human love for or to God 1a4) act of being a friend 1a4a) lover (participle) 1a4b) friend (participle) 1a5) God's love toward man 1a5a) to individual men 1a5b) to people Israel 1a5c) to righteousness 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) lovely (participle) 1b2) loveable (participle) 1c) (Piel) 1c1) friends 1c2) lovers (fig. of adulterers) 2) to like">157 [e] אֵהָ֑ב ’ê-hāḇ; love V-Qal-Imperf-1cs 1a) (Qal) to look for diligently, seek 1b) (Piel) to seek, seek early">7836 [e] וּ֝מְשַׁחֲרַ֗י ū-mə-ša-ḥă-ray, and those who seek me diligently Conj-w | V-Piel-Prtcpl-mpc | 1cs 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to find 1a1a) to find, secure, acquire, get (thing sought) 1a1b) to find (what is lost) 1a1c) to meet, encounter 1a1d) to find (a condition) 1a1e) to learn, devise 1a2) to find out 1a2a) to find out 1a2b) to detect 1a2c) to guess 1a3) to come upon, light upon 1a3a) to happen upon, meet, fall in with 1a3b) to hit 1a3c) to befall 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be found 1b1a) to be encountered, be lighted upon, be discovered 1b1b) to appear, be recognised 1b1c) to be discovered, be detected 1b1d) to be gained, be secured 1b2) to be, be found 1b2a) to be found in 1b2b) to be in the possession of 1b2c) to be found in (a place), happen to be 1b2d) to be left (after war) 1b2e) to be present 1b2f) to prove to be 1b2g) to be found sufficient, be enough 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to cause to find, attain 1c2) to cause to light upon, come upon, come 1c3) to cause to encounter 1c4) to present (offering)">4672 [e] יִמְצָאֻֽנְנִי׃ yim-ṣā-’un-nî. will find me V-Qal-Imperf-3mp | 1cs, Pn

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"I love those who love me; And those who diligently seek me will find me.

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I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.

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