Ahava

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Ahava
     water, the river (Ezra 8:21) by the banks of which the Jewish
     exiles assembled under Ezra when about to return to Jerusalem
     from Babylon. In all probability this was one of the streams of
     Mesopotamia which flowed into the Euphrates somewhere in the
     north-west of Babylonia. It has, however, been supposed to be


     the name of a place (Ezra 8:15) now called Hit, on the
     Euphrates, east of Damascus.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Ahava, essence; being; generation