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לֵבָב

levav · heart

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3824 · appears 252 times in the Bible

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What it means

levav (לֵבָב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “heart”.

The inner part of the person, where one thinks, feels and decides.

How to say it

le·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

  1. The deepest part of a person: where they think, desire and decide.
  2. The mind, where one thinks.
  3. Courage, spirit.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Heart: the inner part of the person, where one thinks, feels and decides. It is another form of לֵב (H3820), with the same sense; what is said there holds here. Deuteronomy prefers it.

How we translate it

“Heart” 244 times, “hearts” 5. This edition writes “heart”, as for לֵב. The images are kept literally: “circumcise the foreskin of your heart”, “our heart melted”, “your heart is lifted up”. In Deuteronomy 15:7 אִמֵּץ לְבָב is translated “harden your heart” for clarity.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • heart ×244
  • hearts ×5
  • brokenhearted ×1
  • me ×1
  • whole ×1

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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Genesis 20:5

    Did he not say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she, she too said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and in the innocence of my hands I have done this.”

  • Genesis 20:6

    Then Elohim said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this; and I also kept back you from sinning against me; that is why I did not let you touch her.

  • Genesis 31:26

    Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of the sword.

  • Exodus 14:5

    When it was told to the king of Egypt that the people had fled, the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed toward the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?”

  • Leviticus 19:17

    You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and you shall not bear sin because of him.

  • Leviticus 26:36

    And as for those who are left of you, I will bring faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a driven leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one flees from the sword, and fall when no one is pursuing.

  • Leviticus 26:41

    I also walked with them in opposition and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and then they accept the payment for their iniquity,

  • Numbers 15:39

    And it shall be a fringe for you, and you shall see it and remember all the commandments of YHWH and do them, and you shall not go exploring after your heart and after your eyes, after which you prostitute yourselves,

  • Deuteronomy 1:28

    Where are we going up? Our brothers have melted our heart, saying, ‘A people greater and taller than we; cities great and fortified up to the heavens; and also we saw the sons of the Anakim there.’”

  • Deuteronomy 2:30

    But Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing to let us pass by him, for YHWH your Elohim had hardened his spirit and made firm his heart, in order to give him into your hand, as it is this day.

  • Deuteronomy 4:9

    Only guard yourself and keep your soul carefully, so that you do not forget the things that your eyes have seen and so that they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and to the children of your children.

  • Deuteronomy 4:29

    But from there you will seek YHWH your Elohim, and you will find him, if you search for him with all your heart and with all your soul.

  • Deuteronomy 4:39

    Know today, and bring it back to your heart, that YHWH, he is Elohim in the heavens above and on the earth below; there is no other.

  • Deuteronomy 5:29

    If only they had this heart of theirs to fear me and to keep all my commandments all the days, so that it might go well with them and with their children forever!

  • Deuteronomy 6:5

    You shall love YHWH your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

  • Deuteronomy 6:6

    These words that I am commanding you today shall be on your heart.

  • Deuteronomy 7:17

    If you say in your heart, “These nations are more numerous than I; how can I dispossess them?”

  • Deuteronomy 8:2

    Remember all the way that YHWH your Elohim has led you these forty years in the wilderness, in order to afflict you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.

  • Deuteronomy 8:5

    Know in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, YHWH your Elohim disciplines you.

  • Deuteronomy 8:14

    and your heart is lifted up, and you forget YHWH your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slaves,

  • Deuteronomy 8:17

    and you say in your heart, “My strength and the might of my hand have made for me this wealth.”

  • Deuteronomy 9:4

    Do not say in your heart, when YHWH your Elohim pushes them out from before you, saying, “Because of my righteousness YHWH has brought me in to take possession of this land”; but because of the wickedness of these nations YHWH is dispossessing them from before you.

  • Deuteronomy 9:5

    Not because of your righteousness or because of the uprightness of your heart are you going in to take possession of their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations YHWH your Elohim is dispossessing them from before you, and in order to establish the word that YHWH swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

  • Deuteronomy 10:12

    And now, Israel, what is YHWH your Elohim asking of you but to fear YHWH your Elohim, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve YHWH your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul,

  • Deuteronomy 10:16

    So circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and do not be stubborn any longer.

  • Deuteronomy 11:13

    And it will be, if you truly listen to my commandments that I am commanding you today, to love YHWH your Elohim and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

  • Deuteronomy 11:16

    Guard yourselves, lest your heart be seduced and you turn aside and serve other gods and bow down to them,

  • Deuteronomy 11:18

    So you shall put these words of mine on your heart and on your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

  • Deuteronomy 13:3

    you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of dreams, for YHWH your Elohim is testing you to know whether you love YHWH your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul.

  • Deuteronomy 15:7

    If there is among you a needy one, one of your brothers, in one of your gates in your land that YHWH your Elohim is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or close your hand against your brother, the needy one.

  • Deuteronomy 15:9

    Guard yourself so that there is not a wicked word in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” and your eye is evil toward your brother, the needy one, and you do not give him anything, and he cries out against you to YHWH, and it becomes sin in you.

  • Deuteronomy 15:10

    You shall freely give to him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because on account of this thing YHWH your Elohim will bless you in all your work and in every undertaking of your hand.

  • Deuteronomy 17:17

    And he shall not multiply wives for himself, so that his heart does not turn aside; and silver and gold he shall not multiply for himself greatly.

  • Deuteronomy 17:20

    so that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and so that he may not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left, in order that he may prolong his days over his kingdom, he and his sons, in the midst of Israel.

  • Deuteronomy 18:21

    And if you say in your heart, “How shall we know the word that YHWH has not spoken?”

  • Deuteronomy 19:6

    so that the avenger of blood does not pursue the manslayer while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally, though he did not deserve a sentence of death, since he did not hate him previously.

  • Deuteronomy 20:3

    and say to them, “Hear, Israel: you are drawing near today to war against your enemies. Do not let your heart grow soft; do not be afraid, and do not panic, and do not be terrified before them,

  • Deuteronomy 20:8

    And the supervisors shall speak further to the people and say, “Who is the man who is afraid and soft of heart? Let him go and return to his house, so that the heart of his brothers does not melt like his heart.”

  • Deuteronomy 26:16

    This day YHWH your Elohim commands you to do these statutes and the rules; so you shall keep and do them with all your heart and with all your soul.

  • Deuteronomy 28:28

    YHWH will strike you with madness and with blindness and with bewilderment of heart.

And 212 more times.