לִבָּה
liba · heart
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3826 · appears 7 times in the Bible
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liba (לִבָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “heart”.
(another form of the same word): the center of the person, where one thinks, feels and decides.
How to say it
li·ba
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
- A person's center, where they think, feel and decide.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- hearts ×6
- heart ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Psalms 7:9
May the evil of the wicked come to an end, and make firm the righteous; and the one who tests the hearts and the kidneys is the righteous Elohim.
- Psalms 125:4
Do good, YHWH, to the good and to the upright in their hearts.
- Proverbs 15:11
Sheol and Abaddon are before YHWH; how much more the hearts of human beings!
- Proverbs 17:3
The crucible is for silver and the furnace for gold, but the one who tests hearts is YHWH.
- Proverbs 21:2
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but YHWH weighs hearts.
- Proverbs 24:12
If you say, “Look, we did not know this,” does not he who weighs hearts understand it? And he who keeps your soul, he will know it, and he will repay a man according to his work.
- Ezekiel 16:30
How weak is your heart, declares Adonai YHWH, when you do all these things, the work of an imperious prostitute woman!