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AHAVA

(Heb. ʾahăwāʾ)

A river or canal in Babylon; possibly also the name of a town or settlement associated with it. Ezra mentions Ahava as the site at which he gathered the exiles who were to return to Jerusalem and proclaimed a preparatory fast before the journey (Ezra 8:15, 21, 31).

Attempts to locate Ahava are complicated by the limited data for reconstructing the route of Ezra’s return, and by the abundance of textual variants for the name in the relevant manuscripts (MT, LXX, Ethiopic). While the exact locations are unknown and several sites have been proposed, most are within a 200 km. (125 mi.) radius of Babylon.

Monica L. W. Brady






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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