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As in English, the Hebrew language only has one word for love, although we can think of it in context as erotic love, brotherly love or unconditional love. The Greek language has four words for four types of love.

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Like English, Hebrew has a number of words for love. In English: fondness, adoration, cherishing (etc.; see a thesaurus).

In Hebrew: דודים ,חיבוב ,רחמים ,אהבה, and several other possibles. (The word דודים is sometimes a plural noun; but it also means love, as in Ezekiel 16:8.)

In Hebrew, there aren't any exact synonyms. Therefor each of the apparent synonyms for אהבה will point to a slightly different aspect of love.

אהבה is the most general word for love.

דודים is used for love such as that of newlyeds.

חיבוב is close to "cherish."

רחמים is for a gut-feeling, such as the love of a mother.

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Hebrew, like all Semitic languages, is extremely verbal. It's not possible to count the verbs. However, an interesting fact is that almost every native Hebrew word can be traced back to a verb form.

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It depends on the definition of grace. For example:

  1. Grace (as a girl's name): גרייס (pronounced the same as in English)
  2. Grace (as in niceness): חן (khen)
  3. Grace (as in lack of clumsiness): לא מגושם (lo megusham)
  4. Grace (as in a grace period for payments) ×—× ×™× ×” (khaneenah)
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Modern Hebrew has between 60,000 and 150,000 words.As with any language, there is no clear-cut count

The Bible contains about 8000 different Hebrew words, including names.

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You might be thinking of Greek, which has 4 distinct words for love. In Hebrew, there is one main word, although it does have synonyms.

Love (noun) = ahava (אהבה)

Love (verb) = ahav (אהב)

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Hebrew is an entire language. It has as many words as any other language.

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Hebrew has between 60,000 and 150,000 words.

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It isn't possible to know that, since not every word of the ancient language was written down. as far as written Hebrew goes, about 8000 ancient Hebrew words are known.

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The Hebrew language is still around. It has between 40,000 and 140,000 words, just like most languages.

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Hebrew has between 60,000 and 150,000 words.As with any language, there is no clear-cut count.

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