Three consonants carry one idea: love. The plain verb is to love; flip its voice and you are loved; turn it reflexive and you fall in love. The same three letters then settle into the great noun ahava, and into the people of love: the beloved one and the one who is in love. Nothing here is a separate vocabulary item; it is one root rotated through the binyanim. Every word is verified against pealim, niqqud included.
The same root runs through the verb system. Each binyan is a voice: it bends the one idea into active, passive, causative or reciprocal. Tap to hear.
The active pa'al (to love) pairs with its passive nif'al (to be loved), and the hitpa'el turns the feeling inward at its onset: to fall in love. The intensive and causative tracks (pi'el, hif'il) are not lexicalized for this root; love does not need a "make someone love" verb in everyday Hebrew.
Same root letters, different noun moulds (mishkalim). The mould tells you the function: who does it, the act of doing it, or the thing produced.
Strip the prefixes, suffixes and vowels. Three consonants remain, and the meaning lives there.