חָבַב châbab — properly, to hide (as in the bosom), i.e. to cherish (with affection)
Translated in the KJV as love.
a primitive root (compare H2244, H2247); properly, to hide (as in the bosom), i.e. to cherish (with affection).
châbab in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Participle (active) 1
חֹבֵ֣ב Deut 33:3 Participle (active), masculine singular
Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›