Mind
בָּלStrong’s H1079bal
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Bal is the Aramaic word usually translated “mind”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him.”
Meaning
- Mind, heart
How it's translated
- mind 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
בָּל bal · mind
mind, heart Aramaic of lev (לֵב "heart" H3820A)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “mind” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MIND, noun
[Latin reminiscor; Latin mens; Gr. memory, mention, to remember, mind ardor of mind vehemence; anger. mind signifies properly intention, a reaching or inclining forward to an object, from the primary sense of extending, stretching or inclining, or advancing eagerly, pushing or setting forward, whence the Greek sense of the word, in analogy with the Teutonic mod, moed, muth, mind courage, spirit, mettle. So Latin animus, animosus.]
- Intention; purpose; design.“The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination; how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind” Proverbs 21:27
- Inclination; will; desire; a sense much used, but expressing less than settled purpose; as in the common phrases, 'I wish to know your mind; ' 'let me know your mind; ' 'he had a mind to go; ' 'he has a partner to his mind '
- Opinion; as, to express one's mind We are of one mind
- Memory; remembrance; as, to put one in mind; to call to mind; the fact is out of my mind; time out of mind From the operations of the intellect in man, this word came to signify.
All definitions and other forms of “mind”
- The intellectual or intelligent power in man; the understanding; the power that conceives, judges or reasons.
- The heart or seat of affection.“Which were a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah” Genesis 26:35
- The will and affection; as readiness of mind Acts 17:11
- The implanted principle of grace. Romans 7:23
MIND, verb transitive
To attend to; to fix the thoughts on; to regard with attention.
- “MIND not high things” Romans 12:16
- To attend to or regard with submission; to obey.
- To put in mind; to remind.
- To intend; to mean.
MIND, verb intransitive
To be inclined or disposed to incline.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.