לָבַב
lavav · make cakes, hearten
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3823 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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lavav (לָבַב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “make cakes, hearten”.
To make cakes (from the word "cake"); elsewhere, to ravish the heart or to gain understanding. The root is that of "heart."
How to say it
la·vav
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Prepare dough loaves.
- To steal someone's heart, captivate.
- Come to have sense.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- You have stolen my heart ×2
- made cakes ×1
- make ×1
- will gain understanding ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 2 Samuel 13:6
Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill, and the king came to see him. Amnon said to the king, “Please let Tamar my sister come and make two cakes before my eyes, and I will eat from her hand.”
- 2 Samuel 13:8
Tamar went to the house of Amnon her brother, and he was lying down. She took the dough and kneaded it and made cakes before his eyes and cooked the cakes.
- Job 11:12
And a hollow man will gain understanding when a wild donkey’s colt is born a human being.
- Song of Songs 4:9
You have stolen my heart, my sister, bride; you have stolen my heart with one of your eyes, with one bead of your necklaces.
And 1 more times.