Ahava
Ahava - water, the river (
Ezra 8:21) by the banks of which the Jewish\nexiles assembled under
Ezra when about to return to
Jerusalem\nfrom Babylon. In all probability this was one of the streams of\n
Mesopotamia which flowed into the
Euphrates somewhere in the\nnorth-west of Babylonia. It has, however, been supposed to be\nthe name of a place (
Ezra 8:15) now called Hit, on the\n
Euphrates, east of Damascus.
From
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)